alimentary

Etymology

From aliment (“food”) + -ary.

adj

  1. Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.
    Like Malthus and Young, [Ricardo] could not imagine that humankind would ever be totally freed from the alimentary imperative. 2014, Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, page 6
  2. Nourishing; nutritious.

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