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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Edible \Ed"i*ble\, adjective [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See {Eat}.] Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. --Bacon. -- n. Anything edible.
{Edible bird's nest}. See {Bird's nest}, 2.
{Edible crab} (Zo["o]l.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab ({Callinectes hastatus}). See {Crab}.
{Edible frog} (Zo["o]l.), the common European frog ({Rana esculenta}), used as food.
{Edible snail} (Zo["o]l.), any snail used as food, esp. {Helix pomatia} and {H. aspersa} of Europe.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
edible
adjective: suitable for use as food [syn: {comestible}, {eatable}] [ant: {inedible}]
noun: any substance that can be used as food [syn: {comestible}, {eatable}, {pabulum}, {victual}, {victuals}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "edible": board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, comestible, comestibles, creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, dainty, delicious, digestible, eatable, eatables, edibles, esculent, fare, fast food, feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, good to eat, gustable, health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, kosher, meat, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, palatable, provender, provision, savory, spread, succulent, sustenance, table, tasty, toothsome, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles, wholesome
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EDIBLE, adjective Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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