alimentary
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Alimentary, My Dear Watson If you’re approaching your sixth decade and dreading the obligatory colonoscopy, FiveThirtyEight has some good news for you.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 3, 2016
Alimentary, nervous, and excretory systems are more developed in the nemertini than in less advanced phyla.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Holmes even lives – which is truly the sign of cultural reach – in long-circulated jokes with punchlines such as "Alimentary, my dear Watson", "Sedimentary, my dear Watson" and "Lemon-entry, my dear Watson".
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2014
The study appears in the July issue of the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
From US News • Jun. 26, 2014
Alimentary canal straight, often with appended glands of complicated or simpler structure; no jaws.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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