alimentation

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Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Like the respiration, the alimentation ought to be watched by the singer.

From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.

But Buffon further imagined that innumerable “mol�cules organiques” are dispersed throughout the world, and that alimentation consists in the appropriation by the parts of an organism of those molecules which are analogous to them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

In the alimentation of armies bread is the basal element.

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.

In ten thousand years, two hundred thousand millions of human bodies have been formed by means of respiration and alimentation from the earth and atmosphere, and have returned to them again.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward