edible

CEFRC1

/ˈɛdɪbəl/

adjective · noun

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01
adjective
Safe and suitable to eat.
02
adjective
Extra detail
In which edible plants are grown for human consumption.

Examples

Look, today was 'sea harvest' so let's go forage for edible plants tomorrow!
Radioactive contamination was detected in spinach and edible chrysanthemum.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

[ˈedɪbɫ̩]
[ˈɛdɪbɫ̩]

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
Capable of being eaten without disgust or disrelish.

noun

Extra meaning

Anything edible.

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In context

Carrots and turnips are edible roots.
Although stale, the bread was edible.
edible fruit

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Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.
2006, Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs, page 17
However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible than its model, the Monarch, but initially less edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.
1957, Jane Van Zandt Brower, “Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butterflies”, in Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer, editors, Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries, published 1996, page 81
This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.
2009, Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs, page 4
Gardens do not contain flowers and ornamental plants, but edible plants. Although edible, these gardens are equally valued for their aesthetic qualities. It is women who collect from edible gardens, […]
2020, Valentina Peveri, The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia, page 7
To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or two.
2021, Rose Ray, Caro Langton, Into Green: Everyday Ways to Find and Lose Yourself in Nature, page 62

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Origin

adjective

From Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō (“eat”). Doublet of eatable.

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adjective

noun

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The forager identified which wild mushrooms are blank— and which are poisonous.

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Origin

adjective

The forager identified which wild mushrooms are blank and which are poisonous.