غِذَاءٌ
1.
Aliment, or nutriment; consisting of food and of drink; (S, Msb;) the means of the growth, or increase, and of the sustenance, or support, of the body: (K:) plural أَغْذِيَةٌ. (KL.) [One says رَجُلٌ
حَسَنُ الغِذَاءِ
A man good in respect of food: i. e., who feeds on good food: and سَيِّيءُ الغِذَاءِ
bad in respect of food: who feeds: a bad food.]
2.
It is also applied, by the poet Eiyoob Ibn-'Abáyeh. to (assumed tropical:) The water for irrigation of palm-trees. (TA.)
3.
Also plural of غَذِىٌّ. (S, &c.)