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undigestible

[uhn-di-jes-tuh-buhl, -dahy-]

adjective

  1. indigestible.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of undigestible1

First recorded in 1605–15; un- 1 + digestible
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Example Sentences

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‘AMERICAN HEARTBREAK’ HAS 34 songs, an improbable number but not, apparently, an undigestible one.

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Food can trigger symptoms, and a diet low in FODMAPs — undigestible carbohydrates — has gained many supporters.

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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.

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It's believed to be associated with the undigestible beaks of the whale's principal food, the common cuttlefish, and squid.

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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.

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