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

Like the respiration, the alimentation ought to be watched by the singer.

From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.

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 Kleber, L. O., Mrs.

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 Sanpietro, I. Stone