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
For this reason many new trees spring up in groups, obtaining their first alimentation from the dissolution of the corpse.
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by I. Stone Sanpietro
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
For all these children public alimentation and clothing also would be a godsend.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
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
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