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pharmafood

pharmafood noun: a food supposed to have health benefits; a nutraceutical.

Noun

pharmafood (plural pharmafoods)

  1. A food supposed to have health benefits; a nutraceutical.
    • The problem is that the area is grey so far as the authorities are concerned and it is difficult to know where to draw the line between a nutriceutical or pharmafood and a medicinal drug substance.1995, Rita Greer, The Book of Vitamins and Healthfood Supplements
    • Science seems to discover another new "pharmafood or neutraceutical" almost daily.1996, Linda Page, Boosting Immunity with Power Plants, page 20

Forms of pharmafood

pluralpharmafoods

Origin of pharmafood

From pharma- + food.

Questions about pharmafood

What does pharmafood mean?
Pharmafood means a food supposed to have health benefits; a nutraceutical.
What part of speech is pharmafood?
Pharmafood is a noun.
What is the plural of pharmafood?
The plural of pharmafood is pharmafoods.

Words near pharmafood in the dictionary

  1. pharmacovigilant
  2. pharmacovigilence
  3. pharmacracy
  4. pharmacratic
  5. pharmacy
  6. pharmafood
  7. pharmafoods
  8. Pharmageddon
  9. pharmahuasca
  10. pharmakoi
  11. pharmakos

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