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nounany substance that can be used as food
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adjectivesuitable for use as foodOpposite:
Definition that contains edible
- pulse edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
- organs edible viscera of a butchered animal
- vegetable edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
- squash edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
- snail edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
- yam edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food
- yam edible tuber of any of several yams
- oyster edible body of any of numerous oysters
- seafood edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
- taro edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants