supply+with+food+or+nutriment
1food — 1 Food, feed, victuals, viands, provisions, comestibles, provender, fodder, forage are comparable when meaning things that are edible for human beings or animals. Food is the most general of these terms and is typically applicable to all… …
2Food — Any substance eaten to provide nutritional support for the body. * * * That which is eaten to supply necessary nutritive elements. [A.S. foda] * * * Feed or Ordinary Diet [trial] * * * food füd n, often attrib 1) material consisting essentially… …
3nourish — v. a. 1. Nurture, nurse, feed, tend, supply with food or nutriment, furnish sustenance to. 2. Support, maintain, provide for. 3. Train, educate, instruct, breed, bring up. 4. Cherish, encourage, foster, promote, succor, foment. 5. Cherish,… …
4nourish — nourishable, adj. nourisher, n. /nerr ish, nur /, v.t. 1. to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth. 2. to cherish, foster, keep alive, etc.: He had long nourished the dream of living abroad. 3 …
5nourish — nour•ish [[t]ˈnɜr ɪʃ, ˈnʌr [/t]] v. t. 1) to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth 2) to cherish; keep alive: to nourish a hope[/ex] 3) to strengthen or promote; foster: to nourish the… …
6nourish — /ˈnʌrɪʃ / (say nurish) verb (t) 1. to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for maintaining life. 2. to foster or promote. {Middle English norische(n), from Old French noriss , stem of norir, from Latin nūtrīre suckle,… …
7gastropod — /gas treuh pod /, n. 1. any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc. adj. 2. Also, gastropodous /ga strop euh deuhs/. belonging or pertaining to the gastropods. [1820 30; < NL Gast(e)ropoda a class of mollusks.… …
8agricultural sciences, the — Introduction sciences dealing with food and fibre production and processing. They include the technologies of soil cultivation, crop cultivation and harvesting, animal production, and the processing of plant and animal products for human… …
9hymenopteran — /huy meuh nop teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. hymenopterous. n. 2. Also, hymenopter. a hymenopterous insect. [1875 80; HYMENOPTER + AN] * * * ▪ insect Introduction any member of the third largest and perhaps the most beneficial to humans of all insect… …
10Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely …
