alimentation

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Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

As in the case of respiration, alimentation and excretion are suspended during hibernation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

The problem of alimentation is, indeed, one of the most essential, perhaps the most essential, in the history of humanity.

From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Richet, Charles

But Buffon further imagined that innumerable “mol�cules organiques” are dispersed throughout the world, and that alimentation consists in the appropriation by the parts of an organism of those molecules which are analogous to them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The mode of administration will be specially referred to under the head of alimentation.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various