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ingestible

ingestible

1 3.9
Safe to eat or swallow
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈdʒɛstɪbəl/
translation icon : ingerible
  • This sounds improbable enough by itself, but where is the description of the process to make an orally ingestible product?

They are not detoxifying in the way that people are trying to market charcoal in ingestible products.

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Examples

  • Then, what do I want, an ingestible?

  • Now the United States Food and Drug Administration has approved similar ingestible RFID microchip medicine for use in the U.S.

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  • (Note: An ingestible poison may be the best way to deal with these animals, should they become a serious problem.)

    Fiction book (1996)
  • And when gin failed to keep them apart, I'd had many other ingestible and injectable aids to resort to, which got me into trouble.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • They are not detoxifying in the way that people are trying to market charcoal in ingestible products.

  • Ingestible poisons.

  • The Food and Drug Administration has approved an ingestible digital sensor that can track physical health with the assertion that patients are not taking their medication regularly and need a tracking device inside their body to assist them in their medical care.

    Blog text (1)
  • You just drank an ingestible formula that uses a CRISPR-Cas9 genetic editor... to resequence your DNA on a molecular level.

  • Most fast food restaurants (in AZ at least) don't even ask what you want; they hand you a cup and you fill it yourself from a fountain that provides sugary as well as diet drinks, and this same area usually houses a teapot as well (unless it's that barely ingestible substance that comes out of the fountain spigot and they dare to call tea).

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  • The herbal supplement is ingestible, making it safe to consume for digestive health.

Synonyms

edible
vsingestible
5 2.3

A thing from nature, like a plant or mushroom, that you can eat

also covers being taken down the throat safely even when not food
eatable
vsingestible
1 1.0

Safe to eat

also applies when being taken down the throat matters beyond food use
comestible
vsingestible
  • Formal
8.7

Can be eaten without harm

also covers being taken down the throat not limited to food suitability
swallowable
vsingestible
3.7

Small and safe enough to eat or drink without choking

is broader and includes safe eating as well as throat passage

How Safe

wholesome
71 3.1
ingestible
1 3.9
inedible
11 4.5
harmful
161 2.6
toxic
380 4.0

Surface Forms

ingestible positive

Morphology

ingestible = ingest (transparent) = ingest + ible

Standard adjective formation from the verb 'ingest' with the suffix '-ible', yielding 'able to be ingested' which is directly predictable.

Etymology

Ingestible comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and gest 'carry', the same root you see in digest. So it means 'can be carried into' the body, which is why it describes something safe to eat or swallow.