Pabulum synonyms

păb'yə-ləm

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nourishment
The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
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sustenance
One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
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diet
A program or plan consisting of a special or limited selection of food and drink and designed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight; specif., such a program or plan designed to promote weight loss
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food (related)
(Uncountable, figuratively) Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.
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fuel
The definition of fuel is anything that produces energy, power or heat.
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nutrient
A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
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nutriment
Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
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support
Financial or other help.
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aliment
Means of support; necessity
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bread
Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
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comestible
(Chiefly in the plural) Anything that can be eaten; food. [From 19th c.]
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edible
Anything edible.
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esculent
Something edible; a comestible.
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fare
The usual kind of diet
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foodstuff
An instance of material which may be used as food.
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meat
(Uncountable) The flesh of an animal used as food. [from 14th c.]
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nurture
The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.
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nutrition
Anything that nourishes; nourishment; food
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pap
Material lacking real value or substance:
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provender
An edible material that provides sustenance.
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provision
Provision is defined as a supply of something or to the act of providing a supply of something.
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victual
(Informal, Dial.) Articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
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chow
The definition of a chow is a breed of Chinese dog, a chow chow, with a thick coat and a black tongue.
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eats
(Slang) Food.
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grub
The short, fat, wormlike larva of certain insects, esp. of a beetle
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ingestion (related)
The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
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care for (related)
That which sustains the mind or spirit
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eatable
Something fit to be eaten.
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victuals
Plural form of victual
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Find another word for pabulum. In this page you can discover 29 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pabulum, like: nourishment, sustenance, diet, food, fuel, nutrient, nutriment, support, aliment, bread and comestible.
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Pabulum Sentence Examples

  • But it also appears that honeydew may be excreted by ordinary processes of over-turgescence pressing the liquid through water-pores, as in the tropical Caesalpinia, Calliandra, &c. That these exudations on leaves should afterwards serve as pabulum for Fungie.g.

  • It is not that human needs are to be disregarded, but that the pabulum which he now sees that humanity really requires is of an incomparably higher order than that which is generally so considered.

  • In health the blood and internal tissues are bacterium-free; after death they offer a most suitable pabulum for various bacteria; but between these two extremes lie states of varying liability to infection.

  • Its nutritive pabulum is supplied to it in the shape of certain complex organic substances which have been stored in some part or other of the seed, sometimes even in its own tissues, by the parent plant from which it springs.

  • For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish.

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