- 1. a. Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Source: opted
- 2. n. Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man. Source: opted
- 3. Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible nest">bird's-nest, under Edible. Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man. Source: webster
- 4. Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as,esculent plants; esculent fish.Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones.Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's-nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible. Source: adambom
- 5. a. Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. n. Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man. Source: ecdict
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