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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

malnourishment en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English nourish Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English malnourishment From mal- + nourish + -ment.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) malnutrition, undernourishment