noun
definition
(chiefly in the plural) Anything edible; food.
adjective
definition
Able to be eaten; edible.
Examples of eatable in a Sentence
The berries are black and only eatable after frost.
We all try a bit, it is eatable, but pretty tasteless.
Their diet includes practically everything eatable they can capture or kill.
As a rule there are not many birds, but the eagle and the vulture may occasionally be seen; of eatable kinds partridges and wild pigeons are the most abundant.
Planted against a wall or a building having a south aspect, or trained over a sunny roof, such sorts as the Black Cluster, Black Prince, Pitmaston White Cluster, Royal Muscadine, Sweetwater, &c., will ripen in the warmest English summers so as to be very pleasant eating; but in cold summers the fruit is not eatable in the raw state, and can only be converted into wine or vinegar.