nitrogenous

English

Etymology

From nitrogen +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒdʒɪnəs

Adjective

nitrogenous (not comparable)

1. of, relating to, or containing nitrogen
   • 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes‎^[1], Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 243:

     The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.

Synonyms

• nitrogenic

Translations

of nitrogen

• Arabic: نَتْرُوجِينِيّ (natrūjīniyy)
• Bulgarian: азотен (azoten)
• Burmese: နိုက်ထရိုဂျင် (nuikhta.ruigyang)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 含氮的 (zh) (hándàn de)

• Finnish: typekäs
• French: azoté (fr)
• German: Stickstoff-
• Greek: αζωτούχος (el) (azotoúchos)
• Irish: nítrigineach
• Kazakh: азотты (azotty)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nîtrojenî

• Manx: neetrageenagh
• Nepali: नाइट्रोजनीय (nāiṭrojanīya)
• Polish: azotowy (pl)
• Portuguese: nitrogenoso
• Russian: азо́тный (ru) (azótnyj), азо́тистый (ru) (azótistyj), азотсодержа́щий (ru) (azotsoderžáščij), азотосодержа́щий (ru) (azotosoderžáščij)
• Ukrainian: азо́тний (uk) (azótnyj)
• Uzbek: azotli (uz)