nutrication

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noun

feeding or nourishment

OriginLatin nutricatio →
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoletefeeding or nourishment

    Beside the remarkable teeth, the tongue of this animal is a second argument to overthrow this airy nutrication

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinnutricatio
  2. Englishnutrication

From Latin nutricatio, from nutricare, nutricari (“to suckle, nourish”), from nutrix (“a nurse”).

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nutrication. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutrication

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