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alimentary

adj
/ˌælɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/

Etymology

From aliment (“food”) + -ary.

  1. derived from alimentum
  2. borrowed from aliment
  3. suffixed as alimentary — “aliment + ary”

Definitions

  1. Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.

    • Like Malthus and Young, [Ricardo] could not imagine that humankind would ever be totally freed from the alimentary imperative.

  2. Nourishing

    Nourishing; nutritious.

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Derived

agroalimentary, alimentariness, alimentary canal, alimentary castration, alimentary paste, oroalimentary, unalimentary

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at alimentary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01alimentary02nourishing03nourish04feed05eat06ingested07ingest08gastrointestinal09intestines10intestine

A definitional loop anchored at alimentary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at alimentary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA