alimentary canal

Questions about alimentary canal

What does alimentary canal mean?

alimentary canal means "tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination".

What is another word for alimentary canal?

Close synonyms include alimentary tract, digestive tube, digestive tract, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alimentary canal a common word?

alimentary canal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.