alimentation

/al-uh-men-tey-shuhn/US // ˌæl ə mɛnˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌælɪmɛnˈteɪʃən) //

营养,饮食,营养品,营养学

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : nourishment; nutrition.
- : maintenance; support.
- : addition to the volume of a glacial mass, chiefly by the accumulation of ice, snow, or névé.Compare ablation.

nounnourishment

Synonyms

I now fear nothing in the future, so far as health and disease are concerned, so much as excessive alimentation.
This is the first proof of the importance of fatty matters for the alimentation of babes.
They derive their food and growth from the sap of the wood or the sea, by a secret and most wonderful process of alimentation.
Another order of ideas which one cannot pass by in silence at the present time militates in favour of vegetable alimentation.
Many larvæ adhere to the alimentation present in the egg, as do many adult insects also.