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ingestible

ingestible adjective: capable of being ingested.

Adjective

ingestible (comparative more ingestible, superlative most ingestible)

  1. Capable of being ingested.
    • None of the psychoactive ingredients show up on the Interior Ministry's list of banned ingestible substances.2003 July 27, Jeff Israely, “High Times in Rome”, in Time

Noun

ingestible (plural ingestibles)

  1. Any substance that can be ingested.

Forms of ingestible

Adjective
comparativemore ingestible
superlativemost ingestible
Noun
pluralingestibles

Origin of ingestible

From ingest + -ible.

Words formed from ingestible

Questions about ingestible

What does ingestible mean?
Ingestible means capable of being ingested.
What part of speech is ingestible?
Ingestible can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ingestible in the dictionary

  1. ingestants
  2. ingested
  3. ingester
  4. ingesters
  5. ingestibility
  6. ingestible
  7. ingestibles
  8. ingesting
  9. ingestion
  10. ingestional
  11. ingestions

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