edible
If it’s edible, you can eat it. Many things that you may not want to eat are, in fact, edible. Certain insects are edible, which just means that you can consume them without getting sick (if it doesn’t gross you out too much).
Edible comes from the Latin word edere, which means “to eat.” Anything that people can safely eat is described as edible. Long before there were complex labels on our packages of food, human predecessors were living in caves and sampling various plants and animals for their survival, all the while learning the hard way whether or not certain things were either edible or poisonous. You are most likely a descendant of the ones who found the edible stuff.
Definitions of edible
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suitable for use as food
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synonyms:
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killable
fit to kill, especially for food
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non-poisonous, nonpoisonous, nontoxic
safe to eat
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pareve, parve
containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism
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digestible
capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal
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palatable, toothsome
acceptable to the taste or mind
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tender
easy to cut or chew
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Antonyms:
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inedible, uneatable
not suitable for food
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poisonous
not safe to eat
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indigestible
digested with difficulty
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unpalatable
not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind
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tough
resistant to cutting or chewing
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killable
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any substance that can be used as food
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