micronutrient

English

Etymology

From micro- + nutrient.

Noun

micronutrient (plural micronutrients)

1. A mineral, vitamin or other substance that is essential, even in very small quantities, for growth or metabolism.

   Synonyms: micromineral, trace element

   Antonym: macronutrient

   Hyponyms: mineral, vitamin, calcium, iron, iodine

   • 2010, Anthony Marcelus, “Fix Your Fare”, in Reps!, 17:75:

     Broccoli, on the other hand, is loaded with healthy micronutrients and is perfect in any meal, so keep it on your plate.

Derived terms

• multimicronutrient

Translations

essential mineral or vitamin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微量元素 (zh) (wēiliàng yuánsù)

• Danish: mikronæringsstof n
• Estonian: mikrotoitaine
• Finnish: vitamiini (fi), hivenaine (fi)
• French: micro-élément m
• German: Mikronährstoff (de) m, Spurenelement (de) n
• Italian: micronutriente (it) m, oligonutriente m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikronæringsstoff n

  Nynorsk: mikronæringsstoff n

• Portuguese: micronutriente (pt) m, oligoelemento m
• Spanish: micronutriente m
• Swahili: kirutubisho kidogo
• Tagalog: kalit-ang kapaniya, mikkapaniya, mikapaniya
• Turkish: mikro besin
• Vietnamese: nguyên tố vi lượng, vi lượng tố
• Welsh: microfaethyn m, microfaetholyn m

Further reading

• micronutrient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia