nutriment

American  

[noo-truh-muhnt, nyoo-] / ˈnu trə mənt, ˈnyu- /

noun

1. any substance or matter that, taken into a living organism, serves to sustain it in its existence, promoting growth, replacing loss, and providing energy.

2. anything that nourishes; nourishment; food.

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nutriment British  

/ ˌnjuːtrɪˈmɛntəl, ˈnjuːtrɪmənt /

noun

1. any material providing nourishment

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Other Word Forms

• nonnutriment noun
• nutrimental adjective

Etymology

Origin of nutriment

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin nūtrīmentum nourishment, equivalent to nūtrī ( re ) to nourish, feed + -mentum -ment

Example Sentences

And what nutriment could be more equipped to help carry out this task than the versatile oat, the reliable and hardworking utility player of the human defence system?

From The Guardian

In his 1894 essay The Extinction of Man, Wells pondered a "new and larger variety" that might "acquire a preferential taste for human nutriment".

From BBC

His prayer was but the seasonable flower of his life, nourished to all its beauty by the habitual nutriment of past years.

From Project Gutenberg

But with the ordinary student who cannot receive or retain his mental nutriment except by a carefully studied mode of presentation, he was not so successful.

From Project Gutenberg

It rests on a basis of granite, covered with a thin coat of earth, through which the rocks occasionally appear, and which affords scanty nutriment to a growth of oak, birch, and mountain ash.

From Project Gutenberg