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# digestive

«digestive» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with digestion, the way the body breaks down food…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (digestive); noun (a digestive, digestives — a biscuit, UK/Ireland)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Digestive means to do with digestion, the way the body breaks down food so it can use it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#m1)

2) The digestive system is the set of body parts, from mouth to stomach to intestines, that digests food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#m2)

3) (UK, Ireland, Australia) A digestive (digestive biscuit) is a plain, slightly sweet, round wholemeal biscuit, often dunked in tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, pupils learn the digestive system: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine. In everyday British and Irish life, a digestive is a common biscuit; chocolate digestives are very popular. Phrases: «digestive system», «digestive juices», «chocolate digestive».

### examples

- Food travels through the digestive system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#x1)
- Your stomach is part of your digestive system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#x2)
- Gran always has a digestive with her cup of tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#x3)
- Saliva starts the digestive process in your mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#x4)
- I dunked my digestive and half of it fell in the tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#x5)
- Fibre is good for your digestive health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#x6)
- Can I have a chocolate digestive? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#x7)

### note

As a biscuit name it is countable (two digestives). The name comes from an old belief that these biscuits help digestion; that is a myth, not proven. Related: digest (verb), digestion (noun).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «digestive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.