They can sink their feet into the soil and absorb water and food through them.

As a result, the patient eats less and absorbs less food.

It would be like asking a paramecium why it absorbs food.

These microscopic one-celled animals are content to crawl through their environment, absorbing whatever food they come across.

It will never be able to absorb food normally.

They soon find that he feeds on vampires and is able to absorb food from the surface of his body.

Each absorbs so much food and force, as to become itself a new centre.

You missed the fact that it has no eating mouth but absorbs food directly via the pitting in its skin.

Centaurs cannot absorb food while their bodies are merged.

Because her body was unable to absorb food, she was rapidly losing weight.