inedible
Here are some of the edible plants that can be found in many gardens.
These oils account for a significant proportion of worldwide edible oil production.
The fungus grows on wood and is edible.
The tubers are edible, raw or cooked.
A wild-caught alligator is likely to be very tough and barely edible.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Edible & inedible
best-before date
comestible
condemned
drinkable
eatable
esculent
fit
indigestibility
indigestible
inedible
non-edible
palatable
potable
pull date
sell-by date
spoil
uneatable
unpalatable
unripe
edible
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈed.ə.bəl/ us /ˈed.ə.bəl/
something you can eat; a food:
Edibles rich in antioxidants and B vitamins include blueberries, cranberries, and dark green, leafy vegetables such as kale.
Making special sweets and other edibles for the Day of the Dead has become a tradition for many Mexicans.
something you can eat, such as a cake or cookie, that has had the drug cannabis(= a drug that is illegal in many countries but allowed for certain uses in others) added to it:
They launched a range of medical marijuana edibles including brownies, fudge, and sweets.
He was admitted to hospital after having a bad reaction to an edible.
More than 14,000 mushroom species have been identified, but only about 250 species are delicious edibles.
They offer a great range of edibles and CBD drinks.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drugs - general words
abstinence
abstinence-only
altered state of consciousness
anti-drug
bindle
bong
freebasing
legal high
lit
magic mushroom
medicament
multidrug
pill-popping
smashed
solvent abuse
spike
strung out
substance
substance abuse
wasted

edible | American Dictionary

edible
adjective
us/ˈed·ə·bəl/
suitable or safe for eating:
Only the leaves of the plant are edible.

Examples of edible

edible
But the distinction was not merely one of edible versus non-edible crops.
Repeated harvests of edible seeds from perennial plants, on the other hand, would not require annual selection and replanting.
Any foreign company that was dominant in domestically manufactured edible oils and industrial fats might hope to exercise some leverage.
The category of food production includes commodities that are considered edible and that contain nutrients.
This suggests that the uppermost primary branches are more desirable for cutting for their edible leaves as a vegetable.
Seeds are the major edible component of the fruit biomass constituting nearly 56% of the consumable biomass.
Comparably, ear becomes 'hear', air solidifies to 'hair', and 'am' becomes edible: 'ham'.
On the other hand, dry edible beans are difficult to grow organically.
Moreover, both family meals and edible commodities have trajectories homologous to that of narrative: beginnings, middles, and endings with varying degrees of closure.
They demonstrated this for artificial agents foraging in a simulated environment composed of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Furthermore, our trichromatic system may have evolved to allow the detection of brownish-reddish edibles against greenish backgrounds.
Promotion of flowering, seed production and seedling screening in minor edible aroids.
An edible wild for m is cloned and put into cultivation.
What matters in foraging, for example, is locating edible material, not detecting reflectances.
Edible legumes are usually harvested, and their leaves used as a vegetable or for forage thereby reducing nutrient input to the soil.
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