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Another word for pabulum

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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 source of nourishment; food.
      2. An agent that promotes growth or development.
      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

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Another word for pabulum

Noun
      1. The usual food and drink of a person or animal.
      2. A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.
      3. Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly:
      1. The process of nourishing or being nourished, especially the process by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and for replacement of tissues.
      2. The science or study that deals with food and nourishment, especially in humans.
      3. A source of nourishment; food.
      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:
    See also:

    food

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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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