| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Of or providing nourishment.[Wordnet]
2. Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.[Websters] 3. Being nutritious, nutritive, nourishing or nutrient. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being nutritional or trophic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being dietary. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb alimentally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (alimentally) | 1. So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality.[Websters]. 2. In a nutritious manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a nutritive, nutritional, trophic or nutrient manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a nourishing manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective alimental.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ALIMENTAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ALIMENTAL
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Supplying food; that has the quality of nourishing; that furnishes the materials for natural growth; as, chyle is alimental; alimental sap. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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