Papilio belonging to very distinct groups; while in Northern India and China, many fine day-flying moths (Epicopeia) have acquired the strange forms and peculiar colours of some of the large inedible Papilios of the same regions.
His theory is founded on the assumed, but probable, fact, that insect-eating birds only learn by experience to distinguish the edible from the inedible butterflies, and in doing so necessarily sacrifice a certain number of the latter.
It also explains the fact of the great similarity of many species of inedible insects in the same locality--a similarity which does not obtain to anything like the same extent among the edible species.
When, day by day, he threw into his aviary various larvae, those which were edible were eaten immediately, those which were inedible were no more noticed than if a pebble had been thrown before the birds.
The beautiful dark bronzy green butterfly, Papilio philenor, is inedible both in larva and perfect insect, and it is mimicked by the equally dark Limenitis ursula.
But in open country the dark form would be quite as conspicuous as the yellow form, if not more so, so that the resemblance to an inedible species would be there more needed.
There is, however, a general impression that this knowledge is hereditary, and does not need to be acquired by young birds; in support of which view Mr. Jenner Weir states that his birds always disregarded inedible caterpillars.
In others, as apples and pears, more or less of the edible material is ordinarily rejected with the skin and seeds and other inedible portions.
Juno is very imperfect) would not preserve them unless they were distinguished as inedible at the right time, and not after being seized, in accordance with the principles laid down by Mr. Wallace.
Their office becomes, more and more, the conversion of products inedible to man to edible products.
They must be where coarse materials, inedible to man, are found, and that is on eastern as well as on western farms.
They never have been cooked, but are in a perfectly raw state, and found to be inedible by the prisoners.
First, theinedible remnants of recently consumed vegetable food.
The only things of this nature concerning which I was able to obtain information are (1) the inedible part of some vegetable food which the victim has recently eaten (e.
Art bought a stale, sterno-reeking pretzel that was crusted with inediblevolumes of yellowing salt and squirted a couple bucks at a panhandler who had been pestering him in thick Jamaican patois but thanked him in adenoidal Brooklynese.
He got an undrinkable can of watery Budweiser and propped it up on his tray table alongside his inedible pretzel and arranged them in a kind of symbolic tableau of all things ESTian.
She knew at a glance a venomous from a non-venomous snake, an edible from an inedible nut.
The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance.
Many species have little, hard, inedible figs, and in only a few does the fruit become soft and pulpy.
Thus each young bird must have tasted at least one individual of each inedible species and discovered its unpalatability, before it learnt to avoid, and thus to spare the species.
Such fat can be used, first of all, in cooking, and then any inedible portions can be used in soap making.
The poor or cheap cuts have generally more flavor than the expensive ones, the difference being entirely in texture and tenderness, freedom from gristle and inedible tissue.
Through cultivation, some fruits that were almost inedible in their wild state on account of containing so many seeds have been made seedless.
He writes: "In my opinion an all-sufficient reason for the rarity of the occurrence exists in the fact that in butterflies the edible matter is a minimum, while the inedible wings, etc.
As regards the argument that the inedible species of Ithomiinae, etc.
Thus the mimic is supposed to deceive his enemies by deluding them into the belief that he is the inedible species which they once tried to eat and vowed never again to touch, so nasty was it.
Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit.
Their bright colours and gaudy bands are just advertisements, as it were, of their inedible qualities.
Secondly, there may be a convergence of certain genera of distantly related inedible groups (e.
The indirectly protected group includes those spiders which are rendered inedible by the possession of sharp spines and chitinous plates, and also those that mimic other specially protected creatures.
Spiders are specially protected when they become inedible through the acquisition of hard plates and sharp spines.
When the landlord found that we did not intend to stop overnight, unless mules were at once forthcoming, he visibly lost interest in us, as inedible insects.
Joseph appeared to be the one human being of more importance for Finois than the moving bough of an inedible tree, bush, or shrub, and even Molly could win him to no change of facial expression, though he ate her offered sugar.
Because of the variation of both the edible and inedible material of meat, a standard composition for this food cannot readily be given.
This consists of the bones, cartilage, head, feet, and entrails, or inedible internal organs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inedible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
