Dietetic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dietetic \Di`e*tet"ic\, Dietetical \Di`e*tet"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?:
     cf. F. di['e]t['e]tique. See {Diet}.]
     Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the
     kind and quantity of food to be eaten.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dietetic
       adj : of or relating to the diet; "dietary restrictions" [syn: {dietary},
              {dietetical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "dietetic":
     cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietary, dietic,
     dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic,
     gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating,
     herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian,
     man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious,
     omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous,
     plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial,
     vegetable-eating, vegetarian