NUTRITIONIST’S CALORIE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • Calorie (what does Calorie mean?)
   • kilocalorie (what does kilocalorie mean?)
   • kilogram calorie (what does kilogram calorie mean?)
   • large calorie (what does large calorie mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) nutritionist’s calorie is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • work unit (what does work unit mean?)
   • heat unit (what does heat unit mean?)
   • energy unit (what does energy unit mean?)