Esculent
Esculent adjective - Suitable for use as food.
Usage example: harvesting wild mushrooms is no business for amateurs, since some of the esculent ones closely resemble poisonous varieties
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Synonyms for Esculent
Ingestible and esculent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ingestible" instead an adjective "Esculent".
Ingestible
Esculent and ingestible are semantically related. You can use "Esculent" instead an adjective "Ingestible".
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