| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.[Websters]. | |
| Adjective | 1. Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.[Websters]
2. Being eatable, edible or comestible. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being alimentary, nutritive or nutritional. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being enjoyable. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb esculently.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (esculently) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective esculent.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ESCULENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ESCULENT
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Eatable; that is or may be used by man for food; as esculent plants; esculent fish.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] 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). (references) | 2: [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. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: ESCULENT
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Esculent swallow | (Zo["o]l.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's-nest. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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