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# vitamin

«vitamin» in Mova's school dictionary: **tiny natural substances in food that your body needs to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a vitamin, vitamins)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vitamins are tiny natural substances in food that your body needs to stay healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#m1)

2) Each vitamin has a letter name, like vitamin A, B, C, D, E or K. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#m2)

3) A vitamin can also mean a pill with vitamins in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and science lessons, fruit and vegetables are full of vitamins; vitamin C (oranges, kiwis, peppers) helps the body heal, vitamin A (carrots) helps eyes, and vitamin D comes from sunlight and helps bones. A balanced diet gives you the vitamins you need. In safety, vitamin pills are medicine and only taken with an adult. Phrases: vitamin C, full of vitamins, vitamins and minerals.

### examples

- Oranges are full of vitamin C. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x1)
- Carrots have vitamin A, which is good for your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x2)
- Sunshine helps your skin make vitamin D. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x3)
- Eat lots of fruit and vegetables to get your vitamins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x4)
- Sailors long ago got ill without vitamin C. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x5)
- Mum takes a vitamin every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x6)
- Never eat vitamin pills like sweets; they are medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x7)
- Milk and fish have vitamins and minerals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/#x8)

### note

Countable: a vitamin, vitamins. Said «VY-ta-min» in the USA and «VIT-a-min» in the UK; both are right. Myth: more vitamins are not always better; too many pills can be harmful. Vitamins are not the same as minerals (like iron and calcium).

### In the corpora

- [Gut bacteria help digest food, make some vitamins and protect against harmful germs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad/10/)
- [Carrots are orange because of beta-carotene, which the body turns into vitamin A, needed for the eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/10/)
- [Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need fresh vegetables such as pepper or leafy greens every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/8/)
- [Later sailors learned that lemons and limes prevent scurvy, because they contain vitamin C.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/8/)
- [Taking vitamin C every day does not stop most people catching colds; it might shorten a cold slightly in some studies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vitamin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vitamin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.