edible

Examples

• All

• But as far as I'm concerned, that looks edible and delicious.

• Eggs, like chicken, have a wide range of being edible, but a short range of being delicious.

• What is the only edible food which never goes bad?

• I mean, it's it's definitely the most common edible meat, right?

• A good place to start would have been getting some edible flowers.

• Yeah, radish flowers are edible and very beautiful.

• It does not change the edible nature of it just because of that.

• People have asked me to put up interpretive signs about edible and useful plants.

  Academic text (1995)

• The garden has lots of different varieties of fruits and vegetables and plants, edible flowers and things.

• The knowledge of what's edible and what's not might come in handy.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

E

eatable

vsedible

1 1.0

Safe to eat

has identical meaning but differs only in word form

I

ingestible

vsedible

1 3.9

Safe to eat or swallow

focuses on acceptability as food for humans rather than swallowing ability

C

comestible

vsedible

• Formal

8.7

Can be eaten without harm

has identical meaning but differs only in word form

N

non-poisonous

vsedible

2.5

Safe to eat, touch, or use

requires being fit for human consumption, not only absence of poison

Antonyms

P

poisonous

90 2.8

Containing a substance that can make you sick and can cause death if eaten, touched, or breathed

I

inedible

11 4.5

Not safe to eat because it can make you sick

Compounds

E

edible fruit

1 1.0

A fruit you can safely eat that is usually sweet

E

edible nut

1 2.0

A hard-shelled seed with an edible part inside, like an almond or walnut

E

edible corn

1.0

A type of corn grown to eat, like sweet corn cooked and eaten

E

edible fat

2.4

Oils and other foods from animals or plants that people eat and use for cooking

E

edible lace

6.8

A thin decorative sheet made from food ingredients to decorate cakes and desserts

E

edible mussel

3.5

A small sea animal with a hard shell that people can eat

E

edible sea urchin

6.0

A small sea animal with spikes whose soft parts people eat, like uni

E

edible seed

2.1

A small part of a plant that you can eat and use in cooking

E

edible snail

3.0

A snail that people eat, often in French cooking

E

edible-pod pea

4.4

A type of pea plant that makes soft pods you can eat whole

E

edible-podded pea

4.4

A pea plant with thick soft pods that you can eat

E

edible asparagus

2.5

A plant with young shoots that people cook and eat as a vegetable

E

edible banana

1.0

A type of banana grown for its soft, sweet yellow flesh

E

edible bean

1.0

A seed from plants like peas or lentils that you can eat

E

edible cockle

• UK

3.6

A small shellfish like a clam that people eat

How Edible

wholesome

71 3.1

edible

78 1.4

questionable

176 3.9

inedible

11 4.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology