nutriment

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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?

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019

Having settled on the jellylike nutriment intended for the cultivation of a type of bacteria called staphylococci, the fungus had grown into a flourishing mass.

From Time Magazine Archive

The skin cells take root, seedlike, in the moist raw surface, absorb nutriment, proliferate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Part of the work is assistance of small parishes which cannot provide for their own spiritual nutriment.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë