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Definition of Eatable
1. Adjective. Suitable for use as food.
Similar to: Killable, Non-poisonous, Nonpoisonous, Nontoxic, Pareve, Parve
Also: Digestible, Palatable, Toothsome, Tender
Derivative terms: Comestible, Edibility, Edibleness
Antonyms: Inedible
2. Noun. Any substance that can be used as food.
Generic synonyms: Food, Nutrient
Specialized synonyms: Tuck
Derivative terms: Comestible, Victual, Victual, Victual
Definition of Eatable
1. a. Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
Definition of Eatable
1. Adjective. Able to be eaten; edible. ¹
2. Noun. Anything edible ¹
3. Noun. (in the plural) food ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eatable
1. an edible [n -S] - See also: edible
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eatable
Literary usage of Eatable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1867)
"The twenty-fonr eatable funguses selected for description and ... To many of our
readers the bare enumeration of twenty-four eatable funguses as inhabiting ..."
2. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany, a Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1880)
"Flowers white in open and flat cymes, without involucre, in early summer : fruit
small, globular, not eatable, blue or white, in an exotic species black. ..."
3. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"Flowers white; receptacles eatable.—Fragaria, Sin. * 923. ... although in this
last the bracteoles are entire as in the eatable species of the genus : both ..."
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