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nitrogenous

adj

Etymology

From nitrogen + -ous.

  1. borrowed from nitrogène
  2. suffixed as nitrogenous — “nitrogen + ous”

Definitions

  1. of, 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nitrogenous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA