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EDIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does edibility mean?
• EDIBILITY (noun)
The noun EDIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the property of being fit to eat
Familiarity information: EDIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being fit to eat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
edibility; edibleness
Hypernyms ("edibility" is a kind of...):
property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edibility"):
digestibility; digestibleness (the property of being easy to digest)
indigestibility; indigestibleness (the property of being difficult to digest)
Derivation:
edible (suitable for use as food)
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