Loading page
say it: PER-i-shuh-buhl
perishable is a noun and adjective meaning "food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated". It carries 2 recorded senses.
liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay
“this minute and perishable planet”
“perishable foods such as butter and fruit”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for perishable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.