Elementary vs Alimentary - What's the difference?
elementary | alimentary |
Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
Relating to an elementary school.
(physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
, title=A Palette of Particles
, volume=100, issue=2, page=146
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion
nourishing; nutritious
As adjectives the difference between elementary and alimentary
is that elementary is relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something while alimentary is of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.elementary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}