Alimentive (adj) (rare)
al-im-en-tiv
Especially in phrenology: designating the propensity to seek food and drink; producing or exhibiting this propensity.
Mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From aliment + -ive.
Example sentences
“The feeling of satisfaction was like a good dinner to an alimentive man.”
Boscage (noun) bos-kij a mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket. 1350–1400; Middle English boskage. Middle French boscage. (more…)
Word of the Day - Filotimo / Philotimo (φιλότιμο) (noun) (Greek) fee-lo-tee-mo
