English Explanatory Dictionary

esculent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.
  2. “Good enough to eat”; attractive.
noun
  1. Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
  2. An edible mushroom.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛskjʊlənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-esculent.wav /ˈɛskjələnt/

Word forms

esculent more esculent most esculent esculents

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēsculentus (“fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food”) + English -ent (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of causing, doing, or promoting a certain action). Ēsculentus is derived from ēsca (“food; dish prepared for the table; bait”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’ forming adjectives).

Synonyms

comestible consumable eatable eatworthy edible esculent nibbleable stomachable palatable attractive beauteous beautifool beautiful beautimous bona vardering bonnie breathtaking captivating comely cute divine exquisite fair fetching fine-looking good-looking good enough to eat handsome heavenly knockout lovely lovesome lustrious nice nice-looking personable pretty prettiful pulchritudinous shapely sheen sightly stunning swanlike well-favoured winsome bad beat butters butt-ugly clapped coyote ugly deform fuckfaced fugly hideous homely like the back end of a bus plug-ugly repulsive

Antonyms

inesculent incomestible indigestible inedible nonedible unconsumable uneatable

Related words

esurient

Derived words

esculentin esculent swallow inesculent
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