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/daɪdʒˈɛstəbəl/
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[ US /daɪˈdʒɛstəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /daɪˈdʒɛstəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal
How To Use digestible In A Sentence
- Any book that is written for the public, as this one is, needs to bring across that maturity and complexity of thinking in such a way that it is digestible by nonspecialists, without trivializing the subject.
- More easily digestible food remains in the compartment for less time. Times, Sunday Times
- I was going to write something more about my experience of travelling around the city, but due to lack of time it's in digestible bullet-point form rather than anything more complicated and wordy.
- Other nuts, when crushed, made most delicious "butters," as easily digestible as cream, since they did not require roasting. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
- Prebiotics ( "before life") are nondigestible or fiber components of foods, usually complex carbohydrates that beneficially affect the host by stimulating the growth of intestinal bacteria. Silk Plus for Bone Health
- Burdekin plum (PLEIOGYNIUM SOLANDRI), and all sorts of unpromisingly tough and apparently indigestible, innutritious woodeny nuts and drupes. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- They feed their chicks with food that is digestible for the cuckoo chick, and they have a nest size and egg size that make it possible for the young cuckoo to eject the nest contents.
- The truth is perfectly clear and almost perfectly indigestible.
- Further courses are coaching orientated, examining what the individual needs to learn and offering it in a digestible format.
- Bacteria use the enzyme, called subtilisin, as a sort of food processor: After producing it internally, they release the enzyme into the soil, where it uses a minuscule "blade" to chop up proteins into digestible pieces. THE MEDICAL NEWS