Alimentary
ahd-5
adjective.
Concerned with food, nutrition, or digestion.
adjective.
Providing nourishment.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to aliment or food; having the quality of nourishing: as,
alimentary
particles.
Having an apparatus for alimentation, and consequently able to feed.
Huxley.
Concerned with the function of nutrition: as,
alimentary
processes.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental.
adjective.
the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
adjective.
of, or relating to
food
,
nutrition
or
digestion
adjective.
nourishing
;
nutritious
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective.
of or providing nourishment
Word Usage
"Let us call the alimentary ingestion A, and the parenteral injection P."
cross-reference
alimentary canal
alimentary debt
alimentary fund
alimentary mucous membrane
Equivalent
wholesome
Form
alimentary canal
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
complimentary
documentary
parliamentary
rudimentary
sedimentary
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
assimilative
bronchial
bronchopulmonary
cerebro-spinal
circulatory
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
alimental
nutritious