Meaning

Excessively nourished..

Definitions by Sense

1. Excessively nourished.
2. (often euphemistic) Overweight.

Example Sentences

If a part obtain really an addition of substance, not dependent on transformation or new formation, it is said to be hypertrophied. This is a new word, but it is a very convenient one. The part suffers an excess of nourishment; it is therefore hypertrophied, over-nourished. […] You may have a part over-nourished without increasing in size—the excess may be such as merely to harden it, so that in one sense induration may be an hypertrophy: but very generally, when a part is over-nourished, it acquires a considerable excess of bulk.

Peters Atlas of the World (1990) describes the following countries as being "overnourished" (defined as an average daily caloric consumption ≥3,500): United States of America, Greenland, Ireland, France, Netherlands, […] Two atlas maps suggest possible causal relationships with overnourishment. First, the absolute number of calories derived from fat is greater in overnourished than in other countries. Second, all of the countries considered overnourished are also highly urbanized, with more than 75% of their population living in cities[…].

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.

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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• more overnourished
• most overnourished

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