undigestible
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of undigestible
First recorded in 1605–15; un- 1 + digestible
Example Sentences
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‘AMERICAN HEARTBREAK’ HAS 34 songs, an improbable number but not, apparently, an undigestible one.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022
Ruminants play host to bacteria that digest the otherwise undigestible grass and other cellulose-rich plants those animals eat, making nutrients such as fatty acids available to the beasts the bacteria inhabit.
From Economist • Jan. 14, 2016
It's believed to be associated with the undigestible beaks of the whale's principal food, the common cuttlefish, and squid.
From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2015
Components that are not essential nutrients but provide other benefits are only now being recognized, for example, “Human milk is full of undigestible matter,” German says.
From Slate • Jun. 21, 2015
The other two empty burrows apparently had been recently occupied by nestlings and contained the foul smelling remains of fecal material, hundreds of beetle wings, and other undigestible parts of insects.
From Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula by Klaas, Erwin E.
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