The word 'alimentary' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that relates to food or nourishment. Example: "The digestive system is responsible for processing and absorbing the nutrients from the alimentary substances we consume."
They delight in the power of saliva (just spit into a spoonful of custard and "within ten seconds it pours like water"), they marvel at the olfactory notes of the "bouquet of flatus" and test the limits of the alimentary canal as a vessel.
Enron, a gas-and-electricity utility that in the mid-1980s was briefly known as Enteron until it discovered that this was another term for the alimentary canal, is planning to spend up to $50m for advertisements in 1997 two years agoo America's electricity industry as a whole spent little more than $80m a year on advertising.
That alimentary analogy is shorthand, in Andreessen-speak, for the phenomenon in which industry after industry, from media to financial services to health care, is being chewed up by the rise of the internet and the spread of smartphones, tablet computers and other fancy electronic devices.
In chordates the main nerve cord is single and lies above the alimentary tract, while in other phyla it is paired and lies below the gut.
In eggs with holoblastic (complete) cleavage, after gastrulation the invaginated mass of endoderm lines the archenteron, the cavity of which becomes the alimentary canal, or gut.
It inhabits the alimentary canal of certain aquatic worms.
Three pathways exist in this context: (1) the alimentary canal, (2) the respiratory system, and (3) the kidneys.
Often they begin life high in a palm or some other tree in which a monkey, bat, or bird that has fed on the fruits deposits seeds that have passed through its alimentary tract.
Interoceptors report the state of the bladder, the alimentary canal, the blood pressure, and the osmotic pressure of the blood plasma.
Subdivision proceeds in stages: initially a mass of cells is set aside for an organ system (for the alimentary canal, for instance) and subsequently further subdivided into the rudiments of various parts of the organ system, such as the liver, stomach, and intestines.
If no archenteric cavity is formed during gastrulation, the cavity of the alimentary canal is formed by the separation of cells in the middle of the mass of endoderm (as in bony fishes) or by folding of the sheet of endoderm.
