| 释义 |
unˈeatable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
1611Cotgr., Immangeable, vneatable, vnfit to be fed on. 1775Adair Amer, Ind. 16 The..Indians..formerly reckoned it [sc. opossum] as..uneatable an animal, as a hog. 1798W. Blair Soldier's Friend 16 Biscuits would..be preferable: a loaf becomes mouldy and uneatable in a few days. 1861Musgrave By-roads 12 A dreary breadth of sand hills, dotted with tufts of uneatable herbage and rank weeds. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. xviii, We got an uneatable dinner (having blundered upon a wrong hotel).
Hence unˈeatableness.
1869Trans. Entom. Soc. i. 21 Thus showing that the spines were not the cause of the uneatableness of the larvæ. |