Definition of nourishment

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Nourishment (n.) That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food.

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Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue..
Parasitical :: Parasitical (a.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3..
Epiphyte :: Epiphyte (n.) An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant..
Nourish :: Nourish (v. i.) To gain nourishment.
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural..
Inalimental :: Inalimental (a.) Affording no aliment or nourishment.
Parasite :: Parasite (n.) A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte..
Zootrophic :: Zootrophic (a.) Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals.
Nourishment :: Nourishment (n.) The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition..
Enema :: Enema (n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment..
Diet :: Diet (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
Inanitiate :: Inanitiate (v. t.) To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment.
Nursing :: Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant..
Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Nourishable :: Nourishable (a.) Capable of giving nourishment.
Nutriture :: Nutriture (n.) Nutrition; nourishment.
Aerophyte :: Aerophyte (n.) A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte..
Crude :: Crude (superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
Atrophy :: Atrophy (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
Food :: Food (n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment..
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