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Definitions for indigestible
ˌɪn dɪˈdʒɛs tə bəl, -daɪ-in·di·gestible
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Princeton's WordNet
indigestibleadjective
digested with difficulty
Wiktionary
indigestibleadjective
Difficult or impossible to digest.
indigestibleadjective
Difficult to accept; unpalatable.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Indigestibleadjective
Not conquerable in the stomach; not convertible to nutriment.
Etymology: from in and digestible.
Eggs are the most nourishing and exalted of all animal food, and most indigestible: no body can digest the same quantity of them as of other food. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.
Webster Dictionary
Indigestibleadjective
not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption
Indigestibleadjective
not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile
Etymology: [L. indigestibilis: cf. F. indigestible. See In- not, and Digest.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of indigestible in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of indigestible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of indigestible in a Sentence
All owls do regurgitate small little pellets just of indigestible material because, unlike us, where (when) we eat a piece of meat we eat around the bone, birds of prey just eat the whole thing, for the small little bones they can’t digest, they just cough it back up.
Bacteria are required to digest many indigestible fibers that were, at one time, a large part of the diet.
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