Word Meanings - NUTRITIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.

Related words: (words related to NUTRITIONAL)

• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NUTRITION
  In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth. Note: In this wide sense it comprehends digestion,
• NUTRITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
• INNUTRITION
  Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.
• DENUTRITION
  The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
• MALNUTRITION
  Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach