Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being indigestible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
indigestible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being difficult to digest
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Examples
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If lactose is the indigestible component of milk, the lactose-consuming bacteria present in fermenting milk should solve the indigestibility issue.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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"It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together."
Archive 2006-10-01 Homesick Texan 2006
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"It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it and defying the stomach to digest it, the ingredients are hardly willing to lie in the same pot together."
Part two | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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The major nutritional problems lie in the low concentrations of phosphorus and the relative indigestibility of the protein fraction.
Chapter 6 1994
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Evidence is accumulating that people have developed ingenious methods of fermentation to overcome inherent indigestibility, or toxicity, of the protective (fruit-coat constituents) and not-to-be-eaten components of plants by a combination of physical (to destroy the antimicrobial factors) and microbial methods, with or without leaching or throwing away the cooking wastes.
Chapter 19 1979
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The indigestibility of beef and mutton fat has long been recognized.
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The Mayor, indeed, had for a little while managed to administer currant buns (it was not easy always to find the currant) for supper; but even prior to the official proclamation of their indigestibility they had gone the way of all luxuries.
The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan
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The leaves are eaten raw with pickled fish to correct its oily indigestibility.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The indigestibility of beef and mutton fat has long been recognized.
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About the Senator's she would not commit herself, beyond saying that we had a great deal to be thankful for in that his health hadn't suffered, in spite of the indigestibility of that eternal French twist and honey that you were obliged on the Continent to begin the day with.
A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan
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