digestive system

Questions about digestive system

What does digestive system mean?

digestive system means "the system that makes food absorbable into the body".

What is another word for digestive system?

Close synonyms include gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium. 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 digestive system a common word?

digestive system 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.