edible
Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
Example
“edible fruit”
Other meanings
Capable of being eaten without disgust or disrelish.
“Although stale, the bread was edible.”
In which edible plants are grown for human consumption.
Antonyms
- inedible
Related words
- edible amaranth
- edible bird's nest
- edible crab
- edible dormouse
- edible frog
- non-edible
- inedible
- edibleness
- edibility
- nonedible
- unedible
- edible snail
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "edō" (eat).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “edible” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.