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alimentary canals

n. (plural of alimentary canal English)

Usage examples of "alimentary canals".

The alimentary canals of all compelled to eat it were kept in a continual state of irritation that usually terminated in incurable dysentery.

None of the ready biological metaphors--vascular tubules, alimentary canals, respiratory ducts, neurological pathways--seemed appropriate.

She could picture the roomful of reporters from half a dozen worlds clearing their alimentary canals and shifting their appendages restlessly.

Into this category I would place many of the protozoa in our alimentary canals.

Two livers, kidneys, alimentary canals, sixteen sinuses, two complete nervous systems -- interlocked and twisting around each other like some insane roller coasters -- and one of those sets is female, and the other is male.