alimentary
adj/ˌælɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
Etymology From aliment (“food”) + -ary.
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.2014, Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 6:
2
Nourishing; nutritious.
- Derived terms
- agroalimentary, alimentariness, alimentary canal, alimentary castration, alimentary paste, nonalimentary, oroalimentary, unalimentary
- Related terms
- aliment, alimental, alimentation, alimony, alma mater, alumnus