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1. (n.) vitamin
any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs and also produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
Etymology: (1912; earlier vitamine < L vīt(a) life +amine ; coined by Casimir Funk (1884–1967), U.S. biochemist, who thought they were amines)
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1. (noun) vitamin
any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism
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1. (noun) vitamin
a substance contained in food needed by your body to be healthy
the vitamins found in green vegetables
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Sense: any of a group of substances necessary for healthy life, different ones occurring in different natural things such as raw fruit, dairy products, fish, meat etc
A healthy diet is full of vitamins; Vitamin C is found in fruit and vegetables; (
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 Afrikaans: vitamien |
 Arabic: فيتامين |
 Bulgarian: витамин |
 Brazilian: vitamina |
 Czech: vitamín(ový) |
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 Danish: vitamin; vitamin- |
 Greek: βιταμίνη |
 Spanish: vitamina |
 Estonian: vitamiin |
 Farsi: ویتامین |
 Finnish: vitamiini |
 French: (de) vitamine |
 Hebrew: וִיטָמִין |
 Hindi: विटामिन |
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 Icelandic: vítamín |
 Italian: vitamina; di vitamina |
 Japanese: ビタミン |
 Korean: 비타민 |
 Lithuanian: vitaminas |
 Latvian: vitamīns |
 Malay: vitamin |
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 Norwegian: vitamin |
 Polish: witamina |
 Persian: ویتامین |
 Pashto: ويټامين، په خوړوكې هغه مو |
 Portuguese: vitamina |
 Romanian: vitamină |
 Russian: витамин |
 Slovak: vitamín |
 Slovenian: vitamin; vitaminski |
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 Swedish: vitamin |
 Thai: วิตามิน |
 Turkish: vitamin |
 Taiwanese: 維生素 |
 Ukrainian: вітамін; вітамінний |
 Urdu: وٹامن، حياتين |
 Vietnamese: sinh tố, vitamin |
 Chinese: 维生素 |
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