Meanings
- not comparableof, relating to, or containing nitrogen
The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.
1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 243Synonyms: nitrogenic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof, relating to, or containing nitrogen
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof or relating to or containing nitrogen
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Egyptiannṯr
- Egyptiannṯrj
- Ancient Greekνίτρον (nítron)
- Latinnitrum
- Frenchnitre
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
- Proto-Hellenic*génos
- Ancient Greekγένος (génos)
- Frenchnitrogène
- Englishnitrogen
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Englishnitrogenous
Translations
Arabic نَتْرُوجِينِيّ
- نَتْرُوجِينِيّ (natrūjīniyy)of nitrogen
Bulgarian азотен
- азотен (azoten)of nitrogen
Chinese Mandarin 含氮的
- 含氮的 (hándàn de)of nitrogen
Finnish typekäs
- typekäsof nitrogen
French azoté
- azotéof nitrogen
German Stickstoff-
- Stickstoff-of nitrogen
Greek αζωτούχος
- αζωτούχος (azotoúchos)of nitrogen
Irish nítrigineach
- nítrigineachof nitrogen
Polish azotowy
- azotowyof nitrogen
Portuguese nitrogenoso
- nitrogenosoof nitrogen
Russian азо́тный, азо́тистый
- азо́тный (azótnyj)of nitrogen
- азо́тистый (azótistyj)of nitrogen
- азотсодержа́щий (azotsoderžáščij)of nitrogen
- азотосодержа́щий (azotosoderžáščij)of nitrogen
Spanish nitrogenado
- nitrogenadoof nitrogen
Ukrainian азо́тний
- азо́тний (azótnyj)of nitrogen
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with nitrogenous
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nitrogenous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nitrogenous
“nitrogenous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nitrogenous. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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