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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Nutritive
Nutritive adjective - Providing the substances necessary for health and bodily growth.
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Esculent and nutritive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Esculent" instead an adjective "Nutritive".
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Nutritive and Esculent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/esculent/nutritive
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