esculent
2 antonyms for esculent — opposites grouped by meaning.
Adj — Safe and fit to be eaten.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. adj
Safe and fit to be eaten.
“Nicolas Venette, French physician, refers to skirret, a plant that has esculent tubers, for its high aphrodisiac potential.”
Opposites
2. adj
(informal) Very attractive, as if good enough to eat.
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Etymology
A learned borrowing formed from Latin ēsculentus ("fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food") and English -ent (a suffix forming adjectives with the sense of causing, doing, or promoting a certain action). Ēsculentus itself is derived from ēsca ("food; dish prepared for the tabl...
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