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词汇 inedible
释义 inedible
adjective
uk /ɪˈned.ə.bəl/ us /ˌɪnˈed.ə.bəl/
C1
not suitable or good enough to eat: 不可食用的,不适合食用的
The dish was too spicy, and inedible as a result.
The food served in the dining room is practically inedible.
Opposite
edible
Compare
eatable
non-edible
Most of the meals were cold and inedible.
It was so salty as to be inedible.
I don't like throwing out food, but this really was inedible.
Western food is not all cold hamburgers, soggy chips, and inedible chicken sandwiches.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Edible & inedible
best-before date
comestible
condemned
drinkable
eatable
edible
esculent
fit
indigestibility
indigestible
non-edible
palatable
potable
pull date
sell-by date
spoil
uneatable
unpalatable
unripe

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Not pleasant to eat or drink

inedible | American Dictionary


inedible
adjective
us/ɪˈned·ə·bəl/
not suitable as food:
The potato plant produces inedible fruit that looks like green tomatoes.

Examples of inedible


inedible
The remaining 51% consisted of hard and inedible exocarps.
The inedible seed was abandoned unharmed (after 1-6 d) on the refuse pile, 1-3 m away from the nests.
Everywhere, the raven is considered as inedible.
Eucalyptus wood was used in this experiment to determine whether a potentially edible object was of greater interest than an inedible one.
Dehiscent fruits had an inedible tough exocarp.
This was a red herring, and it was followed by a herring that was even redder, even more inedible.
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The curlew, a charming bird, is a wader and inedible.
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No food manufacturer can possibly succeed if he produces something that is non-nutritional or inedible—certainly not if it is dangerous.
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The first words it uses for this purpose are, "the removal of inedible or extraneous matter".
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Is she aware that the food served in such cafes is expensive, unhygienic, inedible and thoroughly unattractive?
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The price charged for inedible fat used for making tallow varies in different areas, but is of the order of.
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There was no firm market price for inedible offals before the war.
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I should have thought that they were quite inedible.
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The only hazard about that was that it made the powder inedible for the animals that it was supposed to feed.
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It is only inedible stale pap anything up to 14 days later when landed in this country.
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