Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.
WordNet
n. the system that makes food absorbable into the body [syn: gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium]
Usage examples of "digestive system".
To be sure, a lion cannot be conditioned, either by man or by circumstance, to eat grass, since it lacks the teeth required to chew grass properly or the digestive system to handle it even if it could be chewed and swallowed.
Had I forgotten that a detailed presentation on the octospider digestive system had been scheduled for me today?
They were like domesticated chickens, whose brains had been sacrificed to make longer guts and a more effective digestive system.
I assume that the small animals are no problem but that the big ones could do serious damage to the stomach before the digestive system neutralizes them, so they have to be dead before they reach the stomach.
The Fuzzies seem to convert it to something else in their own digestive system.
Although reannual wine causes inebriation in the normal way, the action of the digestive system on its molecules causes an unusual reaction whose net effect is to thrust the ensuing hangover backwards in time, to a point some hours before the wine is drunk.
Three stomachs and a digestive system like an industrial distillation plant gave you a lot of time for sitting and thinking.
The length of the digestive system, though, is really over the top for something that’.
Without them, the digestive system would not function and we would starve to death.
Your digestive system alone is host to more than a hundred trillion microbes, of at least four hundred types.