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Main Entry:	comestible
Part of Speech:	adj
Definition:	edible
Etymology:	Latin com- + -edere 'to eat'

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Main Entry:	comestible
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	anything edible; food
Etymology:	Latin com- + -edere 'to eat'

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–adjective

1.	edible; eatable.

–noun

2.	Usually, comestibles. articles of food; edibles: The table was spread with all kinds of comestibles.

[Origin: 1475–85; < LL coméstibilis, equiv. to L comést(us), ptp. of comedere to eat up (see comedo; -éstus for -és(s)us by analogy with gestus, ūstus, etc.; see gest¹, combust) + -ibilis -ible; see eat

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co·mes·ti·ble Audio Help   (kə-měs'tə-bəl) Pronunciation Key
adj.   Fit to be eaten; edible.

n.   Something that can be eaten as food: meat, cheese, and other comestibles.

[French, from Old French, from Late Latin comēstibilis, from Latin comēstus, alteration (influenced by pōtus, drunk) of comēsus, past participle of comedere, to eat up : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + edere, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

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comestible (n.)

1837, "article of food," from Fr. comestible, from L.L. comestibilis, from L. comestus, pp. of comedere "eat up, consume," from com- "thoroughly" + edere "to eat" (see edible). It was attested earlier as an adj. (1483) meaning "fit to eat" but seems to have fallen from use 17c., and the word was reintroduced from Fr.

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comestible
adjective
1.	suitable for use as food [syn: edible] [ant: inedible]
noun
1.	any substance that can be used as food

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Comestible

Com"e*do\, n.; pl. Comedones. [L., a glutton. See Comestible.] (Med.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

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Comestible

Co*mes"ti*ble\, a. [F. comestible, fr. L. comesus, comestus, p. p. of comedere to eat; com- + edere to eat.] Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.

Some herbs are most comestible. --Sir T. Elyot.

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