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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to diet.
  • noun A system or regimen of dieting.
  • noun A regulated daily food allowance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to diet or the rules of diet.
  • noun A system or course of diet; a system of rules of diet.
  • noun An allowance and regulation of food, especially for the inmates of a hospital, prison, or poorhouse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.
  • adjective Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, or relating to diet

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the diet
  • noun a regulated daily food allowance

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