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indigestibility

American  
[in-di-jes-tuh-bi-li-tee, in-dahy-] / ˌɪn dɪˌdʒɛs təˈbɪ lɪ ti, ˌɪn daɪ- /

noun

  1. the quality of being difficult or impossible to digest.


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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

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

This is true, but does not carry with it the inference that indigestibility accompanies this coagulation.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

They will come out crisp and flaky, and free from all objections on the score of indigestibility.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

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

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