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Assimilability :: Assimilability (n.) The quality of being assimilable.

Assimilable :: Assimilable (a.) That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated..

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To liken; to compa/e.

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue..

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To become similar or like something else.

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.

Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others..

Assimilated :: Assimilated (imp. & p. p.) of Assimilat.

Assimilating :: Assimilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assimilat.

Assimilation :: Assimilation (n.) The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another..

Assimilation :: Assimilation (n.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals..

Assimilative :: Assimilative (a.) Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance..

Assimilatory :: Assimilatory (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs..

Disassimilate :: Disassimilate (v. t.) To subject to disassimilation.

Disassimilation :: Disassimilation (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism..

Disassimilative :: Disassimilative (a.) Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.

Malassimilation :: Malassimilation (n.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.

Malassimilation :: Malassimilation (n.) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

Reassimilate :: Reassimilate (v. t. & i.) To assimilate again.