esculent
suitable for use as food; edible.
something edible, especially a vegetable.
Origin of esculent
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How to use esculent in a sentence
Airy figures of phenomenal esculents float dreamily before our half-shut eyes, and vanish ere perfect vision can catch them.
The Fiend's Delight | Dod GrileOf true Polyporus, only two or three species have been regarded favourably as esculents.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt CookeShe has, however, taken one enormous fee from a bon vivant, whose life she saved by esculents.
The Woman-Hater | Charles ReadeAt this elevation grain is rarely planted, though I was told potatoes and other esculents are not difficult to raise.
The Land of Thor | J. Ross BrowneWith the exception of these few esculents, the environs of Tolon-Noor produce absolutely nothing whatever.
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China | Evariste Regis Huc
British Dictionary definitions for esculent
/ (ˈɛskjʊlənt) /
any edible substance
edible
Origin of esculent
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