Thus did he derive nourishment and strength from food, which, to most people in Europe, would have been in the highest degree disgusting, and productive of sickness.

I have encountered creatures on several occasions," said Spock, "that actually derived nourishment from such things as emotions.

The bird's specially adapted digestive system was capable of breaking down the beeswax and deriving nourishment where no other creature could.

The male thus becomes inseparable from the female, deriving nourishment directly from her blood.

Butterflies have an intimate relationship with flowering plants, which they pollinate, and themselves derive nourishment from the nectar.

Though able, like vegetables, to derive nourishment from inorganic substances, they vastly preferred organic and especially animal food.

All angleworms in a bottle, trying to derive knowledge and nourishment from their own contact and from the bottle.

It implants into the endometrium, and derives nourishment from blood vessels which develop exclusively for this purpose.

It could only derive nourishment from the vital force in the cells of a woman's tissues.

It is sometimes claimed that the Candida derives nourishment from yeasts in food, but this is not the case.