eutrophy

eu- +‎ -trophy

eutrophy (countable and uncountable, plural eutrophies)

1. (medicine) healthy nutrition
2. (geography, of a body of water) The quality of being rich in minerals and nutrients.

eutrophy (third-person singular simple present eutrophies, present participle eutrophying, simple past and past participle eutrophied)

1. (transitive, intransitive, of a body of water) To make or become rich in minerals and nutrients, which often manifests itself in a green color.

• eutrophic
• eutrophicate

• hypereutrophy
• oligotrophy
• mesotrophy

• “eutrophy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.