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Meanings of uneatable in English

Not suitable for food.

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Examples for "inedible"
1
Unfortunately, Hargreaves says all the lighter fluid made the destroyed cakes inedible.
Wired
2
A boy going through the fields picks and eats an inedible mushroom.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
3
For me, the fish becomes so rich that I find it inedible.
Beauty and the feast
4
To the creature's vast disappointment, she found the watch to be inedible.
Mech
5
Looks like they're all either inedible or from a protected species, or both.
The Long War
Usage of uneatable in English
1
The bread was sour and the Italian butter rank and cheesy-oftenuneatable.
The Humour of Homer and Other Essays
2
When he sat down to eat, his feast turned to treasure uneatable.
Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
3
The biscuit in a long voyage becomes uneatable, and flower will not keep.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
4
By the beginning of July most of the eggs are uneatable.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volum...
5
The lamb is uneatable, the potatoes are waxy, and the peas like pills.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
6
The canned beef proved practically uneatable, as we knew would be the case.
The Rough Riders
7
On coming to my first bit of bread to-day I found it uneatable.
Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege
8
The dinner she served up this evening was all but uneatable.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
9
Not that we were not hungry, and not that the bread was uneatable.
The Road
10
An old goose is so tough as to be frequently uneatable.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
11
Everything that is eatable, and many things apparently uneatable, are devoured by them.
By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians
12
The nature of the resultant object is indeterminate, but uneatable.
Le Petit Nord / or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
13
The persimmon-seed is as hard and uneatable as a stone.
Japanese Fairy Tales
14
But the flour was so bad as to be uneatable.
Round About a Great Estate
15
It expanded and shut up quickly, but ended by becoming prodigious and absolutely uneatable.
Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
16
Their fur is of little value, and their flesh uneatable.
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West / The Experience of an Early S...
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