postprandial
after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
Origin of postprandial
1Other words from postprandial
- post·pran·di·al·ly, adverb
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How to use postprandial in a sentence
Most will be too sleepy to wonder what’s happening inside their cells and nerves, or which enzymes and hormones control the biochemistry of postprandial sleepiness.
The extreme consequences of stuffing yourselves during the holidays | Christina Agapakis | November 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe postprandial moment has never struck me as a time for joe.
Overrated/Underrated: Food, Glorious and Otherwise | Michael Tomasky | June 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTCabinet Councils of "tabbies," assembling over their postprandial Bohea, declared they would none of him.
Love's Usuries | Louis CreswickeLike the burden of our sins, the postprandial odor of them must be sometimes intolerable.
Dealings With The Dead | A Sexton of the Old SchoolNone of them impressed me with a very high idea of English postprandial oratory.
The father alone did nothing, but still rested on his couch, perhaps indulging in a postprandial nap.
A Crystal Age | W. H. HudsonThe wit and gaiety, the range and the emphasis of their postprandial conversation can be imagined.
Vie de Bohme | Orlo Williams
British Dictionary definitions for postprandial
/ (pəʊstˈprændɪəl) /
of or relating to the period immediately after lunch or dinner: a postprandial nap
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