intestinal
adjective
occurring in or affecting the intestines.
intestinally
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a word derived from
intestinal.
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a word derived from
intestine.
intestinenounUsually intestines. the lower part of the alimentary canal, extending from the pylorus to the anus.
Example Sentences
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The denaturants can include methanol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone and denatonium, which intestinally make it less appealing to ingest, the U.S.
From Fox News ● Jul. 15, 2020
I work checkout on the 10:30-to-1:15 shift on Sunday mornings: the height of the madness, when the queue to reach the registers winds intestinally through the cart-crammed aisles.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Any one of these films could have been a plausible winner, but Considine's intestinally powerful social-realist drama about rage, despair and redemption has enforced a notable consensus.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2012
Chinese, Malay and Indian food at street markets and bazaars is cheap, if not intestinally hazard-free.
From Time Magazine Archive
These small rodents approximate more to the squirrels than the true mice; but they differ from all others intestinally by the absence of a cæcum.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
