macronutrient
noun
macronutrient is a noun meaning “Any of the elements required in large amounts by all living things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-N-U-T-R-I-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of macronutrient is macronutrients.
What does macronutrient mean?
noun
- 1
Any of the elements required in large amounts by all living things.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce macronutrient?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-macronutrient.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of macronutrient
- macronutrients plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is macronutrient?
Macronutrient appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate macronutrient?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of macronutrient: macro.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does macronutrient come from?
From macro- + nutrient.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).