Edible

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Edible \Ed"i*ble\, a. [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See
     {Eat}.]
     Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible
     fishes. --Bacon. -- n. Anything edible.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Edible bird's nest}. See {Bird's nest}, 2.
  
     {Edible crab} (Zo["o]l.), any species of crab used as food,
        esp. the American blue crab ({Callinectes hastatus}). See
        {Crab}.
  
     {Edible frog} (Zo["o]l.), the common European frog ({Rana
        esculenta}), used as food.
  
     {Edible snail} (Zo["o]l.), any snail used as food, esp.
        {Helix pomatia} and {H. aspersa} of Europe.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  edible
       adj : suitable for use as food [syn: {comestible}, {eatable}]
             [ant: {inedible}]
       n : any substance that can be used as food [syn: {comestible}, {eatable},
            {pabulum}, {victual}, {victuals}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "edible":
     board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, comestible, comestibles,
     creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, dainty, delicious,
     digestible, eatable, eatables, edibles, esculent, fare, fast food,
     feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, good to eat, gustable,
     health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, kosher, meat,
     nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, palatable, provender, provision,
     savory, spread, succulent, sustenance, table, tasty, toothsome,
     tucker, viands, victuals, vittles, wholesome
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  EDIBLE, adj.  Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a
  toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man
  to a worm.