ameliorant

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See also: améliorant

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

ameliorant (plural ameliorants)

  1. A substance that helps plants grow by improving the physical condition of the soil.
  2. Anything that improves something else.
    • 2006, Steven Laurence Kaplan, Good Bread Is Back:
      [] as an ameliorant used to facilitate work with flour lacking in elasticity.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French améliorant.

Adjective[edit]

ameliorant m or n (feminine singular ameliorantă, masculine plural amelioranți, feminine and neuter plural ameliorante)

  1. improving

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