Main Entry: mac·ro·bi·ot·ic

Pronunciation: \-bī-ˈä-tik, -bē-\

Function: adjective

Date: 1965

: of, relating to, or being a diet based on the Chinese cosmological principles of yin and yang that consists of whole cereals and grains supplemented especially with beans and vegetables and that in its especially former more restrictive forms has been linked to nutritional deficiencies

— macrobiotics noun plural but singular in construction