alimentary paste

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   shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg

   Synonymspasta

   Broaderfood

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Questions about alimentary paste

What does alimentary paste mean?

alimentary paste means "shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg".

What is another word for alimentary paste?

Close synonyms include pasta. 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 paste a common word?

alimentary paste 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.