different between nutritious vs alimentary

nutritious

English

Etymology

From Latin n?tr?cius.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nju??t????s/
  • (US) IPA(key): /nu??t????s/
  • Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

nutritious (comparative more nutritious, superlative most nutritious)

  1. (of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat.

Related terms

Translations

nutritious From the web:

  • what nutritious mean
  • what nutritious about mushrooms
  • what nutritious food to eat during pregnancy
  • what nutritious food is rich
  • what nutritious food should we eat
  • what's nutritious about bananas
  • nutritious food
  • what nutritious are you


alimentary

English

Etymology

From aliment (food) +? -ary.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æl??m?nt(?)?i/

Adjective

alimentary (comparative more alimentary, superlative most alimentary)

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

Derived terms

  • alimentary canal

Related terms

Translations

alimentary From the web:

  • what alimentary canal
  • what's alimentary tract
  • what alimentary canal means
  • what alimentary canal is called
  • alimentary meaning
  • what alimentary tract mean
  • what alimentary habits
  • alimentary what does it mean
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

you may also like