nitrogenous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. of, relating to, or containing nitrogen not-comparable
    — The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.

词源

Etymology tree
English nitrogen
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English nitrogenous
From nitrogen + -ous.
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