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Definition of Nonnitrogenous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonnitrogenous
Literary usage of Nonnitrogenous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt (1906)
"THE nonnitrogenous SUBSTANCES A. FATS The fats are esters of the triatomic
alcohols, the glycerins, with mono- ie fatty acids, chief of which in the animal ..."
2. A General Physiology for High Schools: Based Upon the Nervous System by Maude Little Macy, Harry Waldo Norris (1900)
"It has been estimated by a high authority that a healthful diet contains from
three and a half to four and a half times as much of nonnitrogenous as of the ..."
3. Report by Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (1889)
"Further, by combining foods of different compositions according to the proportions
of nitrogenous and nonnitrogenous matters which they contain, ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"The nonnitrogenous matter thus found was not due to incomplete removal of soluble
carbohydrates, nor was it mineral in nature, ..."
5. Sanitation for public health nurses: (the Fundamentals of Public Health) by Hibbert Winslow Hill (1919)
"Part of the proteins of the food, the nonnitrogenous fragments broken off from
them in digestion, are used also as fuel. Hence the body may be supplied with ..."
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