Definition of aliment

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Aliment (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.

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Superaltar :: Superalimentation (n.) The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it..
Alimentiveness :: Alimentiveness (n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
Broma :: Broma (n.) Aliment; food.
Alimentation :: Alimentation (n.) The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
Alimentary :: Alimentary (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances..
Stomodaeum :: Stomodaeum (n.) A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.
Nutritious :: Nutritious (a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental..
Monotremata :: Monotremata (n. pl.) A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna..
Hindgut :: Hindgut (n.) The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also..
Gut :: Gut (n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
Stomach :: Stomach (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric..
Alimental :: Alimental (a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap..
Alimentation :: Alimentation (n.) State or mode of being nourished.
Indican :: Indican (n.) An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin..
Nutriment :: Nutriment (n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..
Inalimental :: Inalimental (a.) Affording no aliment or nourishment.
Ingest :: Ingest (v. t.) To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal..
Aliment :: Aliment (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
Indigestion :: Indigestion (n.) Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
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