(a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

alimental alimentary assimilable cannibal cannibalistic carnivorous commensal dietetic digestible dining eating feeding flesh-eating fruitarian gastronomic gluttonous grain-eating graminivorous granivorous grass-eating herbivorous insect-eating insectivorous lactovegetarian man-eating meat-eating mensal nutrient nutritious nutritive omnivorous omophagous pantophagous phytivorous phytophagous plant-eating postprandial prandial predacious preprandial vegetable-eating vegetarian