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Word Meanings - ESCULENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow , the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.

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  • EATABLE
    Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
  • EDIBLENESS
    Suitableness for being eaten.
  • EDIBLE
    Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.
  • ESCULENT
    Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow , the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.
  • WHOLESOME
    1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the
  • CULINARY
    Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.
  • INCREDIBLENESS
    Incredibility.
  • CHEATABLE
    Capable of being cheated.
  • UNCREDIBLE
    Incredible. Bacon.
  • OBEDIBLE
    Obedient. Bp. Hall.
  • UNCOMEATABLE
    Not to be come at, or reached; inaccessible. Addison. My honor is infallible and uncomeatable. Congreve.
  • CHEATABLENESS
    Capability of being cheated.
  • INTREATABLE
    Not to be entreated; inexorable.
  • CREDIBLE
    Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker.
  • TREATABLE
    Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
  • CREATABLE
    That may be created.
  • ESCHEATABLE
    Liable to escheat.
  • UNTREATABLE
    Incapable of being treated; not practicable. Dr. H. More.
  • INEDIBLE
    Not edible; not fit for food. -- In*ed`i*bil"i*ty , n.
  • CREDIBLENESS
    The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. Boyle.
  • IMPEDIBLE
    Capable of being impeded or hindered. Jer. Taylor.

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