alimental

  • 31nutritious — [adj] healthy alimental, alimentative, balanced, beneficial, good, healthful, health giving, invigorating, nourishing, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritive, salubrious, salutary, strengthening, wholesome; concept 462 Ant. bad, insubstantial,… …

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  • 32aliment —   n. food; nourishment.    ♦ alimental,, a. affording food.    ♦ alimentary, a. pertaining to food; nourishing;    ♦ alimentation, n. act of feeding or being fed.    ♦ alimentative, a. nourishing …

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  • 33aliment — [al′ə mənt; ] for v. [ al′ə ment΄] n. [L alimentum < alere, to nourish: see OLD] 1. anything that nourishes; food 2. means of support; necessity vt. to supply with aliment; nourish alimental [al′əment′ l] adj …

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  • 34aliment — n. formal 1 food. 2 support or mental sustenance. Derivatives: alimental adj. Etymology: ME f. F aliment or L alimentum f. alere nourish …

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