Adjective : perishable fruits and vegetables.    From Dictionary.com. 

The perishability of fresh produce exposes growers to considerable risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Strawberry Fields] Reference

It's a fast-moving business, because of the perishability aspects of fruits and vegetables.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2002] Reference

Because of their extreme perishability, Hodo products are available only in Northern California.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maker of artisanal tofu aims to bring sexy to soybean curd] Reference

I didn't know about the perishability, so I'll be sure to move it to the freezer - thanks for the tip!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: King Arthur Flour White Whole Wheat Flour] Reference

Once processing was brought to larger plants at centralized locations, buttermilk's perishability (its shelf life was only a few days) became problematic, Brown says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Through their narratives the fragility and perishability of human action was overcome and made to outlast the lives of their doers and the limited life-span of their contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hannah Arendt] Reference

There's an essay or series of linked essays patchworked in my mind that involve object and information persistence, perishability, pertinence, mutability, etc., which involve multiple dimensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan] Reference

Moreover, the major part of the production is consumed locally, since tropical root crops, owing to their high water content and perishability, have not assumed any great significance in international trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Even more tragically, large numbers of early movies like the second part of the incomparable Wedding March (1928) have been lost through carelessness and the perishability of nitrate film (for further details see here).    From Wordnik.com.  [June 21st, 2009] Reference

Book I stresses from the outset the indestructibility of the basic elements, while books III and V in pointed contrast give matching prominence to the perishability and transience of, respectively, the soul and the cosmos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretius] Reference

There's always a lot of attention paid to the perishability of 50-year-old works, but I'd argue that with the relatively short shelf life most SF & Fantasy books experience, producing ANYTHING for audio download ensures it will live on.    From Wordnik.com.  [IDW Announces New Science Fiction Line] Reference

Researchers studying one species of caching birds have shown that not only do the birds represent the location of the food, but they integrate this information with information about the quality of the food, its perishability, and whether their caching was observed by other birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concepts] Reference

Apart from cold sensitivity, the handicaps seem to be only the brittleness of branches, which may be snapped off by strong gusts of wind; the perishability of exposed wood; and the discoloration of the timber by the sap-stain fungi to which it is prone because of its high moisture content.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Libby, I think that's an interesting point, about the perishability of YA literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jen Robinson's Book Page] Reference

The infrastructure that powers a supermarket is huge - the perishability, yada yada yada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appetites] Reference

The lady of the flowers had been long dead, and her spirit was still supposed to bear the brand of perishability.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the South Seas] Reference

The first suggestion, on account of the exquisite colour of the flower; the second, because of its perishability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference

But Newman admits, the expansion has brought some hiccups, namely, "Learning how to balance workloads with perishability.".    From Wordnik.com.  [WCAX - Local News] Reference

Perhaps the fact that it runs out toward the city's greatest collection of cemeteries has made it morbidly conscious of human perishability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pipefuls] Reference

The American landscape inspires also his beautiful "En el Teocalli de Cholula", which records as well the perishability of all the handiwork of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

The delicate "baby blue" attracted him by its perishability, its suggestion of impossible refinements beyond the soilure and dust of his own grimy circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Exile and Other Stories] Reference

Cemeteries and other dark places of perishability where corpses are buried and where you end up before rotting and getting into the eternal light and entering the beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Bloombury groundbreaks $577M integrated resort complex in Entertainment City] Reference

The advantages this technology brings are light weight, high torsional rigidity, a very strong safety cell, low perishability, ease of repair and extreme dimensional accuracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik: Top] Reference

Where butchering has become a machine-industry to some extent, the direct cause has been the discovery of preservative processes which have diminished the perishability of meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference

At the same time, there are new logistics considerations since perishability is a factor in moving raw materials to processing plants and in transporting finished goods to market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

To temper its perishability, the curds of a gouda will always be both cooked and pressed, which ensures a dryer curd and a harder resulting cheese with tremendous aging potential.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kitchn] Reference

If you are serbian for seemingly bad credit home mortgage as formerly as each capacitance tumble, motionlessly gracile perishability and observingly premise fright, disturbingly palau our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Clearly, value can be added by financing infrastructure for cold storage/wholesaling/transport and other vulnerability reducing mechanisms that can help them get post harvest loans and/or reduce the perishability risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

(which signifies a higher initial level of moisture or youth, both signifiers of increased perishability), they'll be fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kitchn] Reference

This realization leads to the central problem of the history and philosophy of science: How are we to evaluate contemporary science’s claims to truth given the perishability of past scientific knowledge?.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Post Today « Climate Audit] Reference

When one thinks of these doomed and splendidly creative men and women, one is drawn to contemplate their childhoods, where, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, the seeds of the illness take strong root; could any of the m have had a hint, then, of the psyche’s perishability, its exquisite fragility?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness Visible] Reference

Development), the endless changes of matter, and the mutability and perishability of all individual things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference

As Henderson says, "Any delay will result in irretrievable revenue perishability and the loss of market share.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

Alas, for the perishability of things human!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference