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Larder

A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.

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Commissariat 76% connected

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

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Provender 76% connected

Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.

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Storeroom 76% connected

Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

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Stowage 76% connected

The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

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Victuals 76% connected

Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

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Stillroom 76% connected

A room for distilling.

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Buttery 92% connected

Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pantry 92% connected

An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Aliment noun · 86% connection

a source of materials to nourish the body

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Alimentation noun · 86% connection

a source of materials to nourish the body

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Beverage noun · 86% connection

any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?"

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Biodiversity noun · 86% connection

the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole); "a high level of biodiversity is desirabl…

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Chyme noun · 86% connection

a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum

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Comestible noun · 86% connection

any substance that can be used as food

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Drink noun · 86% connection

any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?"

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Drinkable noun · 86% connection

any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?"

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Eatable noun · 86% connection

any substance that can be used as food

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Ecological niche noun · 86% connection

(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

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ecosystem noun · 86% connection

a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

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Edible noun · 86% connection

any substance that can be used as food

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Fare noun · 86% connection

the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed

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Feed noun · 86% connection

food for domestic livestock

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Food noun · 86% connection

any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

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Food cycle noun · 86% connection

(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

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Food web noun · 86% connection

(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

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Habitat noun · 86% connection

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

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Advance adjective · 78% connection

Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army;…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: room, place, meat, articles, food.
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Anteroom noun · 78% connection

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

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Bar noun · 78% connection

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liq…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: room, place, meat, articles, food.
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Boiled adjective · 78% connection

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: room, place, meat, articles, food.
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Com- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: room, place, meat, articles, food.
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Dairy noun · 78% connection

The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.

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Drawing-room noun · 78% connection

A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.

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Etui noun · 78% connection

A case for one or several small articles; esp., a box in which scissors, tweezers, and other articles of toilet or of daily use are ca…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: room, place, meat, articles, food.
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Flesh noun · 78% connection

Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.

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Glass verb · 78% connection

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: room, place, meat, articles, food.
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Hash noun · 78% connection

That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mi…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: room, place, meat, articles, food.
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Hoecake noun · 78% connection

A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.

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