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sustentative
adjective as in alimentary
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These causes may be conveniently divided as in the above diagram, into sustentative and non-sustentative.
They are the victims of lethal natural selection, nearly always of the non-sustentative type.
But it must not be supposed that lethal, non-sustentative selection works only through forms of infant mortality.
For this reason alone the non-sustentative form of selection might be expected to be the predominant kind.
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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sustentative, such as: comestible, dietary, digestible, nourishing, nutrient, and nutritional.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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