edible, comestible, eatable
(adjective) suitable for use as food
comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals
(noun) any substance that can be used as food
Source: WordNet® 3.1
eatable (comparative more eatable, superlative most eatable)
Able to be eaten; edible.
Rather informal, and sometimes proscribed by authorities. edible is the usual term, and much more frequent, while comestible is relatively formal.
More narrowly, used to mean “food that can be eaten, but is not of very high quality”.
• comestible
• edible
• uneatable
• drinkable, potable
eatable (plural eatables)
(mostly, in the plural) Anything edible; food.
• comestible
• edible
Source: Wiktionary
Eat"a*ble, a.
Definition: Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
– n.
Definition: Something fit to be eaten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
