Definition of "alimentary" []

• Concerned with food, nutrition, or digestion. (adjective)
• Providing nourishment. (adjective)

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• "Let us call the alimentary ingestion A, and the parenteral injection P."
• "It should be understood that the term alimentary anaphylaxis does not signify anaphylaxis by alimentary substances but anaphylaxis by the introduction of the anaphylactizing substance by way of the digestive channels."
• "An alimentary tract could form the basis of further evolution, then the inevitable development of a head might be plausible."