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Starveling

One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.

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Pauper 76% connected

A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.

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Aliment noun · 78% connection

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

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Alimentation noun · 78% connection

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

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Assimilation noun · 78% connection

The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in pl…

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Browse noun · 78% connection

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

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Carnivorous adjective · 78% connection

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to p…

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Cates noun · 78% connection

Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

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Colouring noun · 78% connection

a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"

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Cycas noun · 78% connection

A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuabl…

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Dearth noun · 78% connection

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

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Diet noun · 78% connection

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

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Dish noun · 78% connection

The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the god…

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Eat verb · 78% connection

To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

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Epiglottis noun · 78% connection

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the p…

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Evergreen adjective · 78% connection

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedar…

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Fast verb · 78% connection

A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.

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Food noun · 78% connection

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;…

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Gemmule noun · 78% connection

One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from ev…

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Gosling noun · 78% connection

A catkin on nut trees and pines.

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