edible

Pluraledibles

1. 1
   safe to eatadjective

   Safe for people to eat because it will not hurt them.

   Some wild plants are edible, but others can make you very sick.

   The tiny flowers on this cake are edible, so you can eat them too.

   Similareatable

   Oppositeinedible

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2. 2
   cannabis treatnouncountable

   A food, usually something baked, that has the drug from marijuana in it.

   In some states, adults can legally buy edibles at stores that sell marijuana.

   Keep that cannabis edible away from the kids, because it looks just like a normal cookie.

3. 3
   good enoughadjective

   Good enough to eat without finding it disgusting or unpleasant.

   The toast was a little burned, but it was still edible.

   My brother baked his first cake, and to our surprise it was edible.

   Similareatable, palatable

   Oppositeinedible, unpalatable

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4. 4
   food itemnouncountable

   Any kind of food, or anything else that you can eat.

   The raccoons carried off every edible they could find at our campsite.

   We packed the edibles in one box and the dishes in another.

   Similarfoodstuff, food

5. 5
   gardenadjective

   Used for growing plants that people pick and eat.

   Our school has an edible garden where we grow beans and carrots.

   She grows tomatoes and mint in an edible window box outside her kitchen.

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6. 6
   mushroomnouncountable

   A mushroom that is safe for people to eat.

   On the mushroom walk, our guide filled her basket with edibles and left the poisonous ones in the ground.

   This yellow mushroom is a good edible, but the white one beside it can make you very sick.

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