Aliment

al′i-ment, n. nourishment: food: provision for maintenance, alimony: support.— v.t. to support, sustain: make provision for the maintenance of.— adjs. Aliment′al , supplying food; Aliment′ary , pertaining to aliment: nutritive.— ns. Alimentā′tion , the act or state of nourishing or of being nourished; Aliment′ivene ( phrenol. ), desire for food or drink; Al′imony , an allowance for support made to a wife when legally separated from her husband, or temporarily while the proce is pending.— Alimentary canal , the principal part of the digestive apparatus of animals, in man extending, with convolutions, about 30 feet from the mouth to the anus—including pharynx, œsophagus, stomach, small and large intestine, . [L. ali mentum—alĕre , to nourish.]