Food

Definition of Food

n.

1.

What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

2.

Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

This may prove food to my displeasure.

- Shak.

In this moment there is life and food
For future years.

- Wordsworth.

Food vacuole
(Zool.) one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.

Food yolk
(Biol.) See under Yolk.

v. t.

1.

To supply with food.

Related Words

aliment, chow, comestibles, commons, eatables, eats, foodstuff, foodstuffs, grub, meat, nourishment, nurture, pabulum, pap, provender, scoff, subsistence, tuck

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