Meaning

Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans..

Definitions by Sense

1. Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
2. Capable of being eaten without disgust or disrelish.
3. In which edible plants are grown for human consumption.
4. Anything edible.
5. A foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter or other marijuana.

Example Sentences

edible fruit

Although stale, the bread was edible.

However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible than its model, the Monarch, but initially less edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.

Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.

This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.

Gardens do not contain flowers and ornamental plants, but edible plants. Although edible, these gardens are equally valued for their aesthetic qualities. It is women who collect from edible gardens, […]

To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or two.

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Use edible when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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