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nutraceutical (noo-truh-SOO-ti-kuhl) noun, adjective

   1. A food with (or believed to have) medicinal properties.

   2. Pertaining to nutraceuticals.

[Blend of nutrient and pharmaceutical.]

   "Some of the new nutraceutical waters will be priced comparably; others
   will cost about twice as much as plain bottled water."
   Phil Lempert, Today's Water Is Getting All Juiced Up, The Los Angeles
   Times, Sep 18, 2000.

This week's theme: new words in the OED.

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe
to do. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

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