Edible
Edible , adjective
[Latin edibilis, from edere to eat. See Eat.]
Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
Anything edible. — Bacon
Collocations (4)
Edible bird's nest , See Bird's nest, 2.
Edible crab (Zoology) , any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab.
Edible frog (Zoology) , the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food.
Edible snail (Zoology) , any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.