inedible, a.
(ɪnˈɛdɪb(ə)l)
[in-3.]
Not edible; unfit to be eaten.
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 218 Inedible fungi mistaken for esculent mushrooms. 1855 Bailey Mystic 31 The inedible fruit of immortality. |
Hence inediˈbility, the quality of being inedible.
| 1882 A. R. Wallace in Nature XXVI. 87/2 Various degrees of inedibility in butterflies. 1887 Athenæum 12 Mar. 357/1 In tracing the inedibility through the stages it was found that no inedible imago was edible in the larval stage. |