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
Although an integral portion of the gut, it has ceased to assist in alimentation, its epithelium undergoes vacuolar differentiation and hypertrophy, and its lumen becomes more or less vestigial.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Egg-nog is very nutritious, and is extensively prescribed in certain non-febrile diseases, especially for the forced alimentation of phthisis and melancholia.
From The Suffrage Cook Book by Mrs. L. O. Kleber
They are answered that the excessive leanness of the extremities among those nations which subsist principally on vegetable diet, or whose alimentation is imperfect, is not at all surprising; and this reply is certainly valid.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
The mammals—from the Latin mamma, a breast—are characterized by the presence of breasts designed for the alimentation of their young.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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