alimentative, a. rare.
(ælɪˈmɛntətɪv)
[f. L. alimentāt ppl. stem of alimentā-re (see aliment v.) + -ive.]
Connected with the supply of aliment.
| 1881 Huxley in Nature No. 615. 346 Abnormal states of the physiological units..[or] of their co-ordinating and alimentative machinery. |