MINERAL DEFICIENCY
Dictionary entry overview: What does mineral deficiency mean? • MINERAL DEFICIENCY (noun)
The noun MINERAL DEFICIENCY has 1 sense:
1. lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism
Familiarity information: MINERAL DEFICIENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MINERAL DEFICIENCY (noun)
Meaning:
Lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mineral deficiency" is a kind of...):
deficiency; lack; want (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mineral deficiency"):
sideropenia (a deficiency of iron; results from inadequate iron in the diet or from hemorrhage)
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