as in eating
suitable for use as food
edible plant products
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Recent Examples of edible
Butter molds and sculptures have become a popular piece of edible decor for dinner parties and events.
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Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2026
The shovel is not edible but can be used to scoop up the affogato-style drink.
—Caroline Eubanks, AJC.com, 20 Mar. 2026
But once the critter was eliminated from the equation, cotton farms grew so much cotton that some farmers had to switch to other, more edible, crops to make a profit.
—Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
This may help raccoons more easily identify edible and non-edible objects, especially when foraging in streams.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
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Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2026
The shovel is not edible but can be used to scoop up the affogato-style drink.
—Caroline Eubanks, AJC.com, 20 Mar. 2026
But once the critter was eliminated from the equation, cotton farms grew so much cotton that some farmers had to switch to other, more edible, crops to make a profit.
—Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
This may help raccoons more easily identify edible and non-edible objects, especially when foraging in streams.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for edible
Adjective
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These food categories are staples for most eating patterns that experts recommend for general health and disease prevention.1 1.—
Jennifer Lefton,
Verywell Health,
23 Oct. 2025
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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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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 27 Mar. 2026.
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