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[syn: perishable, spoilable]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay;
- Example: "this minute and perishable planet"
- Example: "perishable foods such as butter and fruit"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Perishable \Per"ish*a*ble\, a. [F. p['e]rissable.]
Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death;
as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
perishable
adj 1: liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or
decay; "this minute and perishable planet"; "perishable
foods such as butter and fruit" [ant: imperishable]
n 1: food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated [syn:
perishable, spoilable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "perishable":
brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying,
ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting,
fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive,
impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial,
momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing,
short-lived, subject to death, temporal, temporary, transient,
transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
volatile