English
Etymology
From Latin esculentus (from esca �food�).
Pronunciation
IPA|/��skj�l�nt/
Adjective
en-adj
- edible|Edible.
#:*1979: my custodian was now the �Old Bill�, the magistrate was one of those soppy, earnest chaps who long to hear of broken homes and deprived childhoods and Johanna was looking esculent in a cinnamon sheath such as you could not buy with a lifetime's trading-stamps. � Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol (Penguin 2001, p. 334)
Noun
en-noun
- Something edible; a comestible.
#:*1997: Meanwhile, maize and morning glories, tomatoes and cherry trees, every flower and Esculent known to Linnæus, thriv�d. � Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
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