alimental

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Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The sun that light imparts to all, receives From all his alimental recompence In humid exhalations, and at even Sups with the ocean.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

Gums are nutritious foods, but it is probable that they are not equal in alimental power to equal weights of starch or sugar.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

Okras, the fruit of a small tree, resembling the English mallows, which put into soup gives it a gelatine quality, highly alimental; the leaves make a good spinage.

From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Corry, Joseph

Its composition indicates a high nutritive power; but it is probable that its nitrogenous matters are partly in a low degree of elaboration, which greatly detracts from its alimental value.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir