inedibility

This indicates its protection due to inedibility to a predator.

The butterfly, being protected by its inedibility, has a leisurely flight.

The red and black coloring are aposematic, advertising the beetles' inedibility.

Although the consequences of pollution are all unintended, surely protective inedibility of game fish would be among the least expected.

As I had suspected it might be, it was offensively seasoned, salted, almost to the point of inedibility.

Some meat had fallen into the fire, but fortunately the fight was over before it had charred into inedibility.

However, lacking the protection of inedibility, they tend to be more easily disturbed than the Roses and fly off erratically .

Waiting, the girls shift from foot to foot in the morning chill, discussing, in vivid terms, the inedibility of the school's cooked lunches.

When a chicken is roasted to the point where its breast is at 170 to 180 degrees, it is overcooked to the point of inedibility.

Bright and distinctive colour patterns in butterflies which are distasteful to predators help communicate their toxicity or inedibility, thus preventing predation.

A running joke in the SCA (and at least one song in very deliberate bad taste) concerns the supposed inedibility of feast food.

This is in order to allow first time predators a much greater chance of preying upon the unpalatable model in the first instance and thus learning of their inedibility.

Conway, who could be as patient as anyone when all other options were closed to him, concentrated on finishing his meal before the downwash from Prilicla's wings cooled it into inedibility.

Young ears can be consumed raw, with the cob and silk, but as the plant matures (usually during the summer months), the cob becomes tougher and the silk dries to inedibility.

In Müllerian mimicry, inedible species, usually within a taxonomic order, find it advantageous to resemble each other so as to reduce the sampling rate by predators who need to learn about the insects' inedibility.

The inedibility of the early land plants to animals and, apparently, fungi led to the great Coal Measures of the Carboniferous and thus to the fuel of the Industrial Revolution and thence the technology for the destruction of those forests' successors.