[U] (formal or technical) food that is needed to stay alive, grow and stay healthy:
Can plants obtain adequate nourishment from such poor soil? * (figurative) As a child, she was starved of intellectual nourishment. * These seeds can be a great source of nourishment to birds in winter.
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