| 单词 | edible |
| 释义 | edible (once / 2250 pages) adjn 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. WORD FAMILYedible: edibility, edibleness, edibles, inedible USAGE EXAMPLESLast winter they perfected an edible cookie dough now on the menu. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Indeed, Parsi surnames provide a veritable smorgasbord of edible associations. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) Edible table art is useful when garden flowers are scarce. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) 1adj suitable for use as food Syn|Ant comestible, eatable killable fit to kill, especially for food non-poisonous, nonpoisonous, nontoxicsafe to eat pareve, parvecontaining no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism digestiblecapable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal palatable, toothsomeacceptable to the taste or mind tendereasy to cut or chew inedible, uneatable not suitable for food poisonousnot safe to eat indigestibledigested with difficulty unpalatablenot pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind toughresistant to cutting or chewing 2n any substance that can be used as food Syn|Hypo|Hyper comestible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals tuck eatables (especially sweets) food, nutrient any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue |
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