nutriment

I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.

And what nutriment could be more equipped to help carry out this task than the versatile oat, the reliable and hardworking utility player of the human defence system?

In his 1894 essay The Extinction of Man, Wells pondered a "new and larger variety" that might "acquire a preferential taste for human nutriment".

His prayer was but the seasonable flower of his life, nourished to all its beauty by the habitual nutriment of past years.

But with the ordinary student who cannot receive or retain his mental nutriment except by a carefully studied mode of presentation, he was not so successful.