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NONCALORIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of food have no (or few) calories
Example:
a noncaloric drink
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
nutritionist's calorie (a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food)