ameliorant

See also: améliorant

English

Noun

ameliorant (plural ameliorants)

1. A substance that helps plants grow by improving the physical condition of the soil.
2. Anything that improves something else.
   • 2006, Steven Laurence Kaplan, Good Bread Is Back:

     […] as an ameliorant used to facilitate work with flour lacking in elasticity.

Related terms

• ameliorate

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French améliorant.

Adjective

ameliorant m or n (feminine singular ameliorantă, masculine plural amelioranți, feminine and neuter plural ameliorante)

1. improving

Declension

Declension of ameliorant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	ameliorant		ameliorantă	amelioranți	ameliorante
	definite	ameliorantul		amelioranta	amelioranții	ameliorantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	ameliorant		ameliorante	amelioranți	ameliorante
	definite	ameliorantului		ameliorantei	amelioranților	ameliorantelor