Usually means: Subject to spoilage or decay.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. perishable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perishable: Merriam-Webster
  3. perishable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perishable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perishable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perishable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Perishable, perishable: Wordnik
  8. perishable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. perishable: Wiktionary
  10. perishable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perishable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perishable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Perishable, perishable: Dictionary.com
  14. perishable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Perishable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Perishable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. perishable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. perishable: Rhymezone
  19. perishable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. perishable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. perishable: FreeDictionary.org
  22. perishable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. perishable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. perishable: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perishable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perishable: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perishable)

▸ adjective:  Liable to perish, especially naturally subject to quick decomposition or decay.
▸ noun:  That which perishes or is short-lived.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) Food that does not keep for long.

Similar:
spoilable, putrefiable, putrescible, decayable, biodegradable, corruptible, passible, witherable, corrodable, putrefactible, more...

Opposite:
nonperishable, non-perishable, imperishable

Types:
milk, eggs, meat, cheese, yogurt, fruit, vegetables, bread, seafood, more...

Phrases:
perishable goods, perishable cargo, more...

Colors:
    beige,     cream,     light brown,     pale yellow,     soft pink, more...

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Similar:
spoilable, putrefiable, putrescible, decayable, biodegradable, corruptible, passible, witherable, corrodable, putrefactible, more...

Opposite:
nonperishable, non-perishable, imperishable

Types:
milk, eggs, meat, cheese, yogurt, fruit, vegetables, bread, seafood, more...

Phrases:
perishable goods, perishable cargo, more...

Colors:
    beige,     cream,     light brown,     pale yellow,     soft pink, more...



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