| 单词 | inedible |
| 释义 | inedible (once / 48440 pages) adj The adjective inedible is good for describing a food that cannot be eaten, like your grandmother's burnt toast, or an object that shouldn't be eaten, like your snow boots. Some things are literally inedible, like your dining room table or a cast iron skillet, while others are described as inedible in a more figurative way: "I can't stand cilantro — now this taco is totally inedible!" The word has been around since the early 1800's to mean "unfit to eat," combining the Latin prefix in, which means "not" or "the opposite," with edibilis, "eatable" in Late Latin. WORD FAMILYedible: edibility, edibleness, edibles, inedible USAGE EXAMPLESMy one successful hunt with it taught me both that I don’t care for duck hunting and that eider ducks are borderline inedible. Washington Post(Nov 07, 2016) The Old Dominion’s oyster population has recovered from 1980s, when pollution and other factors made oysters hard to find and nearly inedible. Washington Times(Nov 03, 2016) It’s often linked to pica, “the indiscriminate eating of inedible objects,” says Dodman, author of Pets on the Couch. National Geographic(Oct 22, 2016) adj not suitable for food Syn|Ant uneatable poisonous not safe to eat indigestibledigested with difficulty unpalatablenot pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind toughresistant to cutting or chewing comestible, eatable, edible suitable for use as food killablefit to kill, especially for food non-poisonous, nonpoisonous, nontoxicsafe to eat pareve, parvecontaining no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism digestiblecapable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal palatable, toothsomeacceptable to the taste or mind tendereasy to cut or chew |
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