joeng5 liu2養料养料
Jyutpingjoeng5 liu2
Yaleyéuhng líu
Definition
Nutrients or nourishment, especially materials that provide nutrition to plants.
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How it's used
Primarily used in the context of gardening or agriculture to describe substances that nourish plants. While it can metaphorically refer to intellectual or emotional nourishment, it is far less common in that sense than the English word nourishment. It focuses specifically on the material substance rather than the abstract concept of sustenance.
Examples
This soil contains a lot of nutrients.
How do you replenish the nutrients for the flowers?
Related words
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 營養, which refers to the nutritional value or the nutrients themselves found within food for humans or animals. 養料 is almost exclusively reserved for the physical substances that support plant growth.
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Grammar guides
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