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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ED'IBLE, a. [from L. edo, to eat.] Eatable; fit to be eaten as food; esculent. Some flesh is not edible.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: suitable for use as food [syn: edible, comestible, eatable] [ant: inedible, uneatable] n
1: any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edere to eat — more at eat Date: 1594 fit to be eaten ; eatable • edibility noun • edible noun • edibleness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. fit or suitable to be eaten (cf. EATABLE). --n. (in pl.) food. Derivatives: edibility n. Etymology: LL edibilis f. edere eat

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Edible Ed"i*ble, a. [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See Eat.] Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. --Bacon. -- n. Anything edible. Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2. Edible crab (Zo["o]l.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab. Edible frog (Zo["o]l.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food. Edible snail (Zo["o]l.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something is edible, it is safe to eat and not poisonous. ...edible fungi. ? inedible ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Eatable, esculent.

Moby Thesaurus

board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, comestible, comestibles, creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, dainty, delicious, digestible, eatable, eatables, edibles, esculent, fare, fast food, feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, good to eat, gustable, health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, kosher, meat, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, palatable, provender, provision, savory, spread, succulent, sustenance, table, tasty, toothsome, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles, wholesome