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# digestive

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

«digestive» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Digestive means to do with digestion, the way the body breaks down food so it can use it. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «digestive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digestive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«digestive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/digestive.html) on Mova free.