Crossword-Solution: ALIMENTARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alimentary | a. | Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “ALIMENTARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Concerned with nutrition | 1 answer |
| DIGESTIVE organs (pert. to the) | 1 answer |
| Kind of food canal | 1 answer |
| Very busy canal? | 1 answer |
| good nourishing stew | 1 answer |
| Nutritional | 5 answers |
| edible | 15 answers |
| Nutritious | 26 answers |
| nourishing | 40 answers |
| BUILDING ___ | 74 answers |
| Good __ | 110 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALIMENTARY (5)
One thing is certain, that in the year 615 before Jesus Christ, Necos undertook the works of an alimentary canal to the waters of the Nile across the plain of Egypt, looking towards Arabia.
Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.
The brain is wrought into certain convolutions, just as the alimentary canal is; the fourth layer, so called, contains elongated groups of small cells or nuclei, radiating at right angles to its plane, which groups present a distinctly fanlike structure.
About the 5th ring of the trachea the caliber of this organ was obstructed by a cylindric alimentary bolus about six inches long, extending almost to the bronchial division.
But violent as were the internal and alimentary fluids, the tide became still more violent when the body came into contact with flaming fire, or the solid earth, or gliding waters, or the stormy wind; the motions produced by these impulses pass through the body to the soul and have the name of sensations.
Quotes with ALIMENTARY (2)
I would like to coin the phrase alimentary theology, a theology that is more attentive to and welcoming of the multiple layers contained and implied in the making of theology. This is a theology that not only pays closer attention to matters related to food and nourishment, and the many ways they can relate, inspire, and inform theological reflection. Most importantly, it is an envisioning of theology as nourishment: food as theology and theology as food. Alimentary theology …
Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life." - Pg. 82
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2005).