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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated;
[syn: perishable, spoilable]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay;
- Example: "this minute and perishable planet"
- Example: "perishable foods such as butter and fruit"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Perishable \Per"ish*a*ble\, a. [F. p['e]rissable.] Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

perishable adj 1: liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay; "this minute and perishable planet"; "perishable foods such as butter and fruit" [ant: imperishable] n 1: food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated [syn: perishable, spoilable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "perishable": brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, short-lived, subject to death, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile