digestibility
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Digestibility — Di*gest i*bil i*ty, n. The quality of being digestible. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
digestibility — noun (plural ties) Date: 1740 1. the fitness of something for digestion 2. the percentage of a foodstuff taken into the digestive tract that is absorbed into the body … New Collegiate Dictionary
digestibility — 1) the degree to which a particular food can be digested and absorbed by a fish 2) the nutrients absorbed by a fish, e.g. nutrient intake nutrient remaining in faeces/nutrient intake, expressed as a percentage … Dictionary of ichthyology
digestibility — See digestible. * * * … Universalium
digestibility — di·gest·ibil·i·ty .jes tə bil ət ē n, pl ties 1) the fitness of something for digestion 2) the percentage of a foodstuff taken into the digestive tract that is absorbed into the body … Medical dictionary
digestibility — n. ability to be digested, state of being fit for digestion … English contemporary dictionary
digestibility — di·gest·ibil·i·ty … English syllables
digestibility — noun the property of being easy to digest • Syn: ↑digestibleness • Ant: ↑indigestibility • Derivationally related forms: ↑digestible (for: ↑digestibleness), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
digestibility coefficient — noun see digestion coefficient … Useful english dictionary
apparent digestibility coefficient — nutrient ingested nutrient egested/nutrient ingested. Not all food eaten or ingested is absorbed, the rest is egested as faeces . The absorbed portion is expressed as a percentage according to the above formula the value for the food absorbed… … Dictionary of ichthyology
