MINERAL DEFICIENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mineral deficiency mean? 

• MINERAL DEFICIENCY (noun)
  The noun MINERAL DEFICIENCY has 1 sense:

1. lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism

  Familiarity information: MINERAL DEFICIENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINERAL DEFICIENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mineral deficiency" is a kind of...):

deficiency; lack; want (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mineral deficiency"):

sideropenia (a deficiency of iron; results from inadequate iron in the diet or from hemorrhage)