Word for the day: vitamin

vitamin |ˈvɪtəmɪn, ˈvʌɪt-|                 *vitamina (In Spanish)



DEFINITION
noun
Any of a group of organic compounds which are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannotbe synthesized by the body.

ORIGIN Early 20th cent.: from Latin vita‘life’ + amine, because vitamins were originally thought to contain an amino acid.

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