noun
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Anything edible.
definition
(marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.
adjective
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That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.
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edible fruit
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That can be eaten without disgust.
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Although stale, the bread was edible.
Examples of edible in a Sentence
The contents of the nut are edible as in the coco-nut.
Muldrow had said the land was overgrown with edible plants.
Do you know how many edible plants grow naturally in our own front yards?
Ballota, a closely allied species abundant in Morocco, bears large edible acorns, which form an article of trade with Spain; an oil, resembling that of the olive, is obtained from them by expression.
Even the lawn contained a surprising amount of herbs, and edible plantains grew everywhere.
Of the edible river fish, the best known is the pirarucd (Sudis gigas), a large fish of the Amazon which is salted and dried for market during the low-water season.
Porphyra laciniata, the edible laver; Codium tomentosum, a coarse species; Padina pavonia, common in shallow water; Ulva latissima; Haliseris polypodioides; Sargassum bacciferum; the well-known gulf weed, probably transported from the Atlantic; Zostera marina, forming dense beds in muddy bays; the roots are cast up by storms and are valuable to dress the fields.
In the highlands of Kabul edible rhubarb is an important local luxury.
That is to say, an edible species is protected by resembling one that is inedible.
Edmund Naumann was the discoverer of these facts, and his attention was first drawn to them by learning that an edible sea-weed, which flourishes only in salt water, is called Asakusanon, from the place (Asakusa) of its original provenance, which now lies some 3 m.
The ita palm, Mauritia, flexuosa (a fanleaf palm) provides an edible fruit, medullary meal, drink, fibre, roofing and timber, but is less used on the Amazon than it is on the lower Orinoco.
At the present day the tree is largely cultivated in most temperate countries for the sake of its timber or for its edible nuts.
The succulent fruits are not only edible but agreeable, and in fevers are freely administered as a cooling drink.
The acai berries are not edible freshly picked.
Among the larger trees are the mountain cedar, reaching to 100 ft.; the gob, which bears edible berries in appearance something like the cherry with the taste of an apple, grows to some 80 ft., and is found fringing the river beds; the hassadan, a kind of euphorbia, attaining a height of about 70 ft.; and the darei, a fig tree.
It is by many esteemed as the best of all the edible fungi found in Great Britain.
Land and marine molluscs are numerous, and include various edible kinds.
Edible roots are especially abundant.
The majority of the species of Acacia are edible and serve as reserve fodder for sheep and cattle.
When an edible species gains protection by mimicking a distasteful one, there is a likelihood of its increasing in numbers until it equals or surpasses its model in this respect.
Some of the other edible fish, such as the palombo, are not found in northern waters.
Here also are other plants with edible roots - the oca (Oxalis tuberosa), ulluca (Ullucus tuberosus), massua (Tropceolum tuberosum), and learc6 (Polymnia sonchifolia).
At the base of the tube, in both groups, the ovary becomes developed into a fleshy (often edible) fruit, that produced by the Opuntia being known as the prickly pear or Indian fig.
The artificial propagation and preservation of salmon and other edible fresh-water fish have been carried on successfully under the supervision of a state commission.
I like the way the word sounds almost edible.
Pastillage is what bakers use to create anything that you see on a cake that is edible but not actually cake.
Some trees of the sessile-fruited oak bear sweet acorns in Britain, and several varieties were valued by the ancient Italians for their edible fruit.
Edible plants, and those for dyes and medicines, were on their lists, as well as wood for tools, utensils and weapons, and fibres for textiles.
The Indians have a habit of consuming a yellowish edible earth containing sulphur; on pilgrimages they obtain images moulded of this earth at the shrines they visit, and eat the images as a prophylactic against disease.
Ostraea; foot absent in the adult; edible and cultivated; some species, as the British 0.
The importance of sun heat to the general well-being of plant life, its influence on the production of flowers and the ripening of edible fruits, has long been appreciated in horticulture.
His family's business was producing a form of edible seaweed.
Wild berries taste and look much like domestically grown varieties, though the edible berries which are allowed to ripen naturally are often sweeter and juicer but smaller.
Carry a zip-lock bag or other container so that when you come upon edible berries you'll be ready to transport them back to your house to share with the rest of the family.
Trails offers a list of common edible berries found in the United States with photos to help you identify them.
The root is edible and a part of the traditional Asian diet.
Edible flowers, possibly crystallized in sugar.
In the interior rivers is found the curious and beautiful lace-leaf plant (Ouvirandra fenestralis), with an edible tuberous root.
Reptiles - snakes, lizards and chameleons, crocodiles, turtles and an enormous variant of the edible Indian crab - are numerous; butterflies and insects, the latter very troublesome, have not yet been systematically collected.
In the artichoke the outer imbricated scales or bracts are in this condition, and it is from the membranous white scales or bracts (paleae) forming the choke attached to the edible receptacle that the flowers are produced.
Besides this species, there are nearly forty different kinds of vine and ten of the olive, including the karudolia, which yields the best edible olive berry.
Hence this kind of press finds only limited application, as in the industry of olive oil for expressing the best and finest virgin oil, and in the production of animal fats for edible purposes, such as lard and oleomargarine.
For the preparation of edible oils and fats the meal is expressed in the cold, after having been packed into bags and placed in hydraulic presses under a pressure of three hundred atmospheres or even more.
Such oils are hardly suitable for edible purposes, and they are chiefly used for manufacturing processes.
The fruits are expressed, and after the edible qualities and best class of oils for technical purposes have been taken off by expression, the remaining pulp is extracted by means of solvents.
In special cases, such as the preparation of edible oils and fats, a further improvement in colour and greater purity is obtained by filtering the oils over charcoal, or over natural absorbent earths, such as fuller's earth.
You can also use alfalfa or rabbit pellets which are absorbent and edible.
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The swollen peduncles of the fruit are edible fresh, in drinks or ices.
Lifting a rock can reveal that its complete underside is covered by edible periwinkles.