Esculent

Quick meaning: Esculent is an adjective meaning Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.

Meaning

Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) “Good enough to eat”; attractive.
2. Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
3. (mycology, specifically) An edible mushroom.

Example Sentences

Now may you Tranſplant moſt ſorts of Eſculent, or Phyſical plants, &c.

Nicolas Venette, French physician, refers to skirret, a plant that has esculent tubers, for its high aphrodisiac potential.

Biogeographical factors, particularly the absence of an indigenous land mammal fauna and a mild oceanic climate, are suggested as the reasons why the New Zealand flora has not provided significant esculent plants.

[T]he Lacedæmonians, […] had proclaimed that any man that would, ſhould carry in Meale, Wine, Cheeſe, and all other eſculents neceſſary for a Siege, into the Iland, appointing for the ſame a great reward of ſiluer: […]

Word Forms

• esculents

Synonyms for esculent

Depending on context, synonyms include comestible, consumable, eatable, eatworthy, edible, nibbleable.

Antonyms for esculent

Common opposites include indigestible, inedible, unconsumable, uneatable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include savoury, comestible, eatable, foody, eatworthy, edible.

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