as in eating
suitable for use as food
edible plant products
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Recent Examples of edible
The advice ranged from stockpiling bottled water and sanitary products, to growing edible foodstuffs at home.
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Olesya Dmitracova, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
The restaurant feels cozy and unpretentious, while the food is colorful and bright – some dishes are even served with edible flowers on top.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Researchers discovered that about 5% of the tiny plastic particles stuck to or were absorbed by the thin, non-edible roots of radishes.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Arizona is full of edible wild plants.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Olesya Dmitracova, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
The restaurant feels cozy and unpretentious, while the food is colorful and bright – some dishes are even served with edible flowers on top.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Researchers discovered that about 5% of the tiny plastic particles stuck to or were absorbed by the thin, non-edible roots of radishes.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Arizona is full of edible wild plants.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for edible
Adjective
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America Healthy Again, the clean-eating, vaccine-skeptical movement that opposes corruption in the food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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Nightmares and negative emotions during dreams were also more common among study participants who reported unhealthier eating patterns, Nielsen told Health.—
Kristen Fischer,
Health,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Via a show kitchen, diners will be able to watch chefs prepare the tasting menu, inspired by a knotted garden, which is believed to always contain something green, in flower, or eatable.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
28 Sep. 2023
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The remaining trees are Adirondack crabapple trees, another fragrant tree that blooms white flowers bearing dime-sized apple-like fruit and autumn brilliance serviceberry or juneberry, which Desotelle said bears an eatable fruit that’s a cross between an apple and a blueberry.—
La Risa R. Lynch,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2022
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“Edible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/edible. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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