Phrase guide

digestive system

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Examples

  • All the food that you eat goes through your digestive system and is digested.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the system that makes food absorbable into the body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: system

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: جِهَاز هَضْمِيّ (jihāz haḍmiyy) — system of organs
  • Azerbaijani: həzm sistemi — system of organs
  • Chinese Cantonese: 消化系統 /消化系统 (siu1 faa3 hai6 tung2) — system of organs
  • Chinese: 消化系統 /消化系统 (siau-hòa hē-thóng) — system of organs
  • Chinese Mandarin: 消化系統 /消化系统 (xiāohuà xìtǒng) — system of organs
  • Czech: trávicí soustava — system of organs
  • Dutch: maag-darmstelsel — system of organs
  • Esperanto: digesta sistemo — system of organs
  • Finnish: ruoansulatusjärjestelmä — system of organs
  • Finnish: ruoansulatuselimistö — system of organs
  • French: système digestif — system of organs
  • Georgian: საჭმლის მომნელებელი სისტემა (sač̣mlis momnelebeli sisṭema) — system of organs
  • German: Verdauungssystem — system of organs
  • Greek: πεπτικό σύστημα (peptikó sýstima) — system of organs
  • Hungarian: emésztőrendszer — system of organs
  • Indonesian: sistem pencernaan — system of organs
  • Irish: coimpléasc — system of organs
  • Italian: apparato digerente — system of organs
  • Italian: sistema digerente — system of organs
  • Japanese: 消化器系 (shōka kikei) — system of organs
  • Northern Kurdish: koendama herisê — system of organs
  • Latin: systēma dīgestōrium — system of organs
  • Polish: układ pokarmowy — system of organs
  • Polish: układ trawienny — system of organs
  • Polish: gastryka — system of organs
  • Portuguese: sistema digestivo — system of organs
  • Portuguese: sistema digestório — system of organs
  • Romanian: sistem digestiv — system of organs
  • Romanian: aparat digestiv — system of organs
  • Russian: пищевари́тельная систе́ма (piščevarítelʹnaja sistéma) — system of organs
  • Spanish: sistema digestivo — system of organs
  • Swahili: mfumo wa mmeng'enyo wa chakula — system of organs
  • Tagalog: satunawing kaayusan — system of organs
  • Tigrinya: ስርዓተ ምሕቃቕ መግቢ (sərʿatä məḥḳax̣ mägbi) — system of organs
  • Turkish: sindirim sistemi — system of organs
  • Vietnamese: đường tiêu hóa — system of organs
  • Vietnamese: hệ tiêu hoá — system of organs
  • Vietnamese: hệ thống tiêu hoá — system of organs
  • Volapük: dicetasitot — system of organs