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nutraceutical (noo-truh-SOO-ti-kuhl) noun, adjective
1. A food with (or believed to have) medicinal properties. 2. Pertaining to nutraceuticals. [Blend of nutrient and pharmaceutical.] "Some of the new nutraceutical waters will be priced comparably; others will cost about twice as much as plain bottled water." Phil Lempert, Today's Water Is Getting All Juiced Up, The Los Angeles Times, Sep 18, 2000. This week's theme: new words in the OED. ............................................................................ The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) Subscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html Unsubscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/unsubscribe.html Change address: http://wordsmith.org/awad/address-change.html Gift subscription: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/nutraceutical.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/nutraceutical.ram
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