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esculent

UK /ˈɛskjʊlənt/US /ˈɛskjələnt/

adjective 2
noun 2
forms 3

adjective2

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(formal) Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.
- Now may you Transplant most sorts of Esculent, or Physical plants, &c. — 1664
(formal, figurative) “Good enough to eat”; attractive.

noun2

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(formal) Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
- Thou neuer hadst in thy house to stay mens stomackes / A peece of Suffolke cheese, or Gammon of Bacon, / Or any esculent, as the learned call it, / For their emolument, but sheere drinke only. — 1625
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(formal) An edible mushroom.
- [Morchella] esculentoides [is] similar to Morchella esculenta, a European esculent, whose name, appropriately, means "edible". — 2015

forms

esculents · more esculent · most esculent

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