shelf-stable
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of foods, storable for extended periods at room temperature.
Example Sentences
- "shelf-stable whipping cream"
- "It is necessary to distinguish between the shelf-life of two broad categories of foods, namely those that are shelf-stable and those that are perishable. For this discussion, shelf-life will be treated as it relates to microbial activity only."
Inflected Forms
more shelf-stable (comparative)
most shelf-stable (superlative)