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inedible

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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in·ed·i·ble /ɪnˈedəbəl/ adjective  DFEATif something is inedible, you cannot eat it because it tastes bad or is poisonous 不宜食用的 OPP edible The meat was so burnt that it was inedible. 肉烧得那么焦,不能吃了。
Examples from the Corpus
inedibleMark hadn't realized that the leaves of the rhubarb plant were inedible.Onondaga Lake is now so polluted that the fish are inedible.The meat had been cooked so long that it was inedible.Sandi found most of the things on her plate inedible.Sometimes the food was totally inedible.The grapes it produced were small and hard, inedible.It is mixed with potato salad and is a heavy, almost inedible concoction.This tree, Morus alba, produces poor, almost inedible, fruit.Some individual birds do not use edible bait, but inedible lures, such as feathers.He opened the second can and that too was filled with the same inedible mess.This liquid was made by chopping up the roots of an inedible yam which looked like stringy, tough beetroot.
in·ed·i·ble adjectiveChineseSyllable
because you it something is if inedible, cannot eat Corpus


inedible
inedible /ɪnˈedəbəl, ɪnˈedɪbəl/ adjective
if something is inedible, you cannot eat it because it tastes bad or is poisonous
   OPP  edible:
    The meat was so burnt that it was inedible.


in·ed·ibleBrE /ɪnˈedəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ɪnˈedəbl/ 🔊 adjectivethat you cannot eat because it is of poor quality, or poisonous 不能吃的;不宜食用的 OPP edible