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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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]

Thesaurus Results for perishable:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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