edible : Idioms & Phrases

• noun plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
  asparagus; Asparagus officinales.
  

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• noun widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit
  Musa paradisiaca sapientum.
  

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• noun any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
  bean.
  

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• . See Bird's nest,

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• noun common edible European cockle
  Cardium edule.
  

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• noun ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
  corn.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab.

Webster 1913

• noun oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food.

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• noun edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
  

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• noun a mussel with a dark shell that lives attached to rocks
  Mytilus edulis.
  

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• noun a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
  

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• noun a sea urchin that can be eaten
  Echinus esculentus.
  

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• noun many are used as seasoning
  

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• noun one of the chief edible snails
  Helix pomatia.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.

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• noun a variety of pea plant producing peas having soft thick edible pods lacking the fibrous inner lining of the common pea
  edible-pod pea; Pisum sativum macrocarpon.
  

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• noun a variety of pea plant producing peas having soft thick edible pods lacking the fibrous inner lining of the common pea
  edible-pod pea; Pisum sativum macrocarpon.
  

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