Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to aliment; supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth: as, chyle is alimental; alimental sap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth.
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- adjective Supplying
food ;nourishing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or providing nourishment
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Examples
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Alternatively, a special alimental formula can also be given.
Omphalocele 2010
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Alternatively, a special alimental formula can also be given.
Gastroschisis 2010
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In the opening up of new countries like the United States and Australia, the railway is the literal maker of the town, in older countries it is the chief alimental channel.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899
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No such reason can be invoked for his justification when he tells how the sun receives from earth his alimental recompense
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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Professor Frankland, in a paper published in the number of the _Philosophical Magazine_ for September, 1866, determines the relative alimental value of foods by ascertaining the quantity of heat evolved by each when burned in oxygen gas.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Its composition indicates a high nutritive power; but it is probable that its nitrogenous matters are partly in a low degree of elaboration, which greatly detracts from its alimental value.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Owing to the marked individuality which man exhibits in the selection of his food, and to the intimate relationship subsisting between food and the organism it nourishes, it is impossible to arrange the alimental substances in the strict order of their nutritive values.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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But even plastic materials, in a high degree of organisation, present many points of difference, which greatly affect their relative alimental value; for example, many of them are naturally associated with substances possessing a disagreeable flavor: and as their separation from these substances is often practically impossible, the animal that consumes both will not assimilate the plastic matters so well as if they were endowed with a pleasant flavor.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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In old clover the proportion of insoluble woody fibre is often so considerable as to greatly detract from the alimental value of the plant.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Gums are nutritious foods, but it is probable that they are not equal in alimental power to equal weights of starch or sugar.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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