malnourishment
- n not having enough food to develop or function normally
- As Davis points out, more than three billion people around the world suffer from malnourishment and yet, ironically, efforts to increase food production have actually produced food .
- Five years ago, 13 babies died of malnourishment in coastal Fujian province after they were fed formula that contained little or no nutritional value.
- In the great drought of 1888, a third of the population is said to have died from malnourishment and disease.