Nutrient: alternatives and connections

Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.

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Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.

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That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: suste…

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The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

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Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.

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The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle an…

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Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.

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

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To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.

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Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.

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Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.

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To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

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The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

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That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.

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That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.

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In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in i…

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The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or…

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Fit to be drunk; drinkable.

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

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The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

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Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.

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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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The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.

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The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: suste…

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That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: suste…

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To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

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To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

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Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

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Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.

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What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; alim…

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of Nourish

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Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.

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Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food…

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