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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

malnutrition \mal`nu*tri"tion\, n. [Mal- + nutrition.]
   (Physiol.)
   Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food
   intake.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

malnutrition
    n 1: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or
         excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb
         foods