edible
/ˈɛdɪbəl/US/ˈɛdəbəl/
edible adjective: capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
Adjective
edible (not comparable)
- Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
- edible fruit
- Synonyms:
- esculent
- Capable of being eaten without disgust or disrelish.
- Although stale, the bread was edible.
- 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...
- In which edible plants are grown for human consumption.
- 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
Noun
edible (plural edibles)
- Anything edible.
- In particular, an edible mushroom.
- A foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol and/or other cannabinoids from cannabutter or other marijuana.
edible meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
edible in Hindi
- that can be eaten without harm; suitable for consumption
- खाद्य khādya
edible in Tamil
- உண்ணத்தக்கவை, உண்ண ஏற்றவை, உண்ணத்தக்க, நல்ல
edible in Marathi
- that can be eaten without harm; suitable for consumption
- खाण्यायोग्य khāṇyāyogya, खाद्य khādya
edible in Urdu
- that can be eaten without harm; suitable for consumption
- کھادیہ khādya
More languagesFewer languages
- edible in Bengali
- ভোজ্য
- edible in Telugu
- భోజ్యము bhōjyamu, ఖాద్య khādya
- edible in Malayalam
- ഭക്ഷ്യയോഗ്യമായ bhakṣyayōgyamāya, ഭക്ഷ്യയോഗ്യം bhakṣyayōgyaṁ
- edible in Kannada
- ತಿನ್ನಬಹುದಾದ, ತಿನ್ನಲರ್ಹವಾದ, ಖಾದ್ಯ, ಆಹಾರ ಯೋಗ್ಯ
- edible in Punjabi
- ਲਸੂੜਾ lasūṛā
- edible in Odia
- ଖାଇବା ଯୋଗ୍ଯ଼
- edible in Sanskrit
- खाद्य khādya
- edible in Sinhala
- ඛාද්ය khādya
- edible in Nepali
- खानयोग्य
- edible in Arabic
- صَالِح لِلْأَكَل ṣāliḥ lilʔakal
- edible in Indonesian
- bisa dimakan, yg dpt dimakan
- edible in Persian
- خوراکی xorâki
- edible in Thai
- กินได้
- edible in Vietnamese
- ăn được
Examples of edible in a sentence
- Some mushrooms are edible whereas others are poisonous, and sometimes they are difficult to tell apart.
- Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
- Those cranberry bushes are ornamental, so they're not edible.
Synonyms of edible
Antonyms
Forms of edible
| plural | edibles |
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Origin of edible
From Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō (“eat”). Doublet of eatable.
Words formed from edible
Phrases with edible
Words that rhyme with edible
Questions about edible
- What does edible mean?
- Edible means capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
- What is edible in Hindi?
- Edible in Hindi is खाद्य (khādya). See Edible meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is edible?
- Edible can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce edible?
- Edible is pronounced /ˈɛdɪbəl/ (UK).
Words near edible in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: edible (page history and authors); edible (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); edible (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఖాద్య (Telugu) (page history and authors); edible (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਲਸੂੜਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); edible (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ඛාද්ය (Sinhala) (page history and authors); edible (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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