overnourished

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20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˈəʊvənʌɹɪʃt/
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/ˈəʊvənʌɹɪʃt/ · /ˈoʊvɚnʌɹɪʃt/ · /-nɝɪʃt/

Definition of overnourished

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Excessively nourished.
    “The overnourished adolescent ewe model utilizes the hierarchy of nutrient partitioning to limit fetal placental growth. Normally, nutrition is shunted to the fetus to promote proper growth, but when the dam is still growing (i.e., adolescent) maternal growth takes priority above fetal growth which means nutrients are partitioned to maternal growth at the cost of the gravid uterus. […] Fetuses from overnourished ewes are normally small for their gestational age and born premature.”
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adj

  1. Excessively nourished.
    “The overnourished adolescent ewe model utilizes the hierarchy of nutrient partitioning to limit fetal placental growth. Normally, nutrition is shunted to the fetus to promote proper growth, but when the dam is still growing (i.e., adolescent) maternal growth takes priority above fetal growth which means nutrients are partitioned to maternal growth at the cost of the gravid uterus. […] Fetuses from overnourished ewes are normally small for their gestational age and born premature.”
  2. (euphemistic, often)Overweight.
    “Lawn vacuums will clean up grass cuttings either as behind-the-mower units or self-propelled or push-type outfits that look like an overnourished Hoover.”
    “Policemen who've grown uhhh, overnourished, by helping themselves to free meals at the expense of hapless carinderia owners.”
    “The girls had done well but I also had to admit that the two attractive and stylish young women to whom I had barely given a second look as we were growing up, had flowered and flourished even though they looked somewhat overnourished to my taste.”

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Etymology

From over- + nourished.

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