This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for nutriment

a-z
Noun

  1. Something fit to be eaten

    See also:

    ingestion

  2. That which sustains the mind or spirit

      1. The supporting of life or health; maintenance or means of livelihood:
      2. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
      3. Something that sustains something else; essential support:
      1. A teat or nipple.
      2. Something resembling a teat or nipple, such as a steep hill.
      1. A substance that gives nourishment; food.
      2. Insipid intellectual nourishment:
      1. The act of nourishing.
      2. The state of being nourished.
      3. Something that nourishes; food.
      1. Material, usually of plant or animal origin, that contains or consists of essential body nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals, and is ingested and assimilated by an organism to produce energy, stimulate growth, and maintain life.
      2. A specified kind of nourishment:
      3. Nourishment eaten in solid form:
      1. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
      2. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
      3. Something that nourishes; sustenance:
      1. Something that nourishes; food.
      2. Something that supports or sustains.
      3. To supply with sustenance, such as food:
    See also:

    ingestion

    care for

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for nutriment

Noun
  1. See also:

    subsistence

    food

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • function of circulating and distributing nutriment through the colony.

  • In this respect the Asiatic species differs very widely from its African relative, whose nutriment is largely composed of boughs and roots.

  • In the case of the common drone-fly, Eristalis tenax, the individual, from a sedentary maggot living in filth, without any relations of sex, and with only unimportant organs for the ingestion of its foul nutriment, changes to a creature of extreme alertness, with magnificent powers of flight, living on the products of the flowers it frequents, and endowed with highly complex sexual structures.

  • The point common to all Pteridophyta is that from the first the gametophyte is an independent organism, while the sporophyte, though in the first stages of its development it obtains nutriment from the prothallus, becomes physiologically independent when its root develops.

  • The commentaries of the Arabians in this respect supplied nutriment more readily assimilated by the pupils than the pure text would have been.

More sentences →

Words that mention nutriment in the Dictionary

Words near nutriment in the Thesaurus