esculent

Meaning

Adj

1. (formal) Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.
2. (figuratively, formal) “Good enough to eat”; attractive.

Noun

1. (formal) Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
2. (formal, specifically) An edible mushroom.

Opposite of

inesculent, edible

Synonyms

edible

eatable

comestible

pabulous

fit to eat

pabular

manducable

Translations

comestible

eßbar

mangeable

commestibile

comestible

mangiabile

comestible

essbar

genießbar

consommable

edibile

eetbaar

yenilebilir

βρώσιμος

yiyecek

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛskjʊlənt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēsculentus (“fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food”) + English -ent (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of causing, doing, or promoting a certain action). Ēsculentus is derived from ēsca (“food; dish prepared for the table; bait”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’ forming adjectives).