ingredient
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ingredient/ɪnˈɡriːdiənt/
▶noun
- 1 any of the foods or substances that are combined to make a particular dish.
- 2 a component part or element.
– origin ME: from L. ingredient-, ingredi ‘enter’, from in- ‘into’ + gradi ‘walk’.
'ingredient' also found in these Oxford entries:
base
- deficient
- drizzle
- extract
- fold
- foo yong
- lace
- mousse
- muddle
- musk
- mustard
- perfume
- physostigmine
- pinch
- pound cake
- prebiotic
- saleratus
- stroganoff
- tetrahydrocannabinol
- water-based
- wormwood
