Alimentary Synonyms

ălə-mĕntə-rē, -trē
Of or relating to food or nutrition
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. nutritional
  2. nutritive
Providing nourishment
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. nourishing
  2. nutrient
  3. nutritious
  4. nutritive
  5. alimental
  6. wholesome
  7. supplying sustenance
  8. salutary
  9. sustaining
  10. sustentative
  11. digestive
  12. digestible
  13. succulent
  14. food-taking
  15. invigorating
  16. food-carrying
  17. comestible
  18. dietary
  19. dietetic
  20. providing maintenance
  21. eutropic
  22. esculent
  23. absorptive
  24. eupeptic
  25. peptic

Words Related to Alimentary

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Alimentary Sentence Examples

  • Before the tariff reform of 1887 manufactured articles, alimentary products and raw materials for manufacture held the principal places in the imports.

  • After a longer or shorter period it enters the alimentary canal of its proper host with drinking-water, or it bores through the skin and reaches the bloodvessels, and is so conveyed through the body, in which it becomes sexually mature.

  • It is probable that the parasite is then transferred to the alimentary canal of man by means of drinking-water, and thence makes its way to the subcutaneous connective tissue.

  • There is no communication between the nephridia on one side and the other, but in Eupolia there are ducts opening into the alimentary canal as well as to the exterior, a condition of things which recalls what obtains in certain Oligochaetes.

  • It encloses the primitive alimentary tract.

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