indigestibility
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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There was a half-serious discussion about the indigestibility of raw onion, and Ike remarked that they had once bothered him, but he hadn't been upset by them for a long time.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the indigestibility of fat, and this property of delaying the digestion of other foods, chiefly that render pastry and cakes so deleterious to health.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
The gooseberry is less wholesome on account of the indigestibility of the skin, which is too frequently swallowed.
From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull
The leaves are eaten raw with pickled fish to correct its oily indigestibility.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Was later mal de mared, swam ashore, and thanked his lucky stars for his indigestibility and the illness of his rescuer.
From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin Leslie Gordon
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