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What is the difference between eatable and edible?

eatable | edible |

Edible is a coordinate term of eatable.

Edible is a antonym of eatable.

Edible is a synonym of eatable.



As adjectives the difference between eatable and edible

is that eatable is able to be eaten; edible while edible is that can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.

As nouns the difference between eatable and edible

is that eatable is anything edible; food while edible is anything edible.

eatable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be eaten; edible.
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  • The contents of the pan began to boil, and he turned to plunge his hand into the bowl; I conjectured that this preparation was probably for our supper, and, being hungry, I resolved it should be eatable ;
  • * 1891 , , Natural selection and tropical nature , page 399,
  • When the seeds are larger, softer, and more eatable , they are protected by an excessively hard and stony covering, as in the plum and peach tribe ; or they are enclosed in a tough horny core, as with crabs and apples.
  • * 1911 , ,
  • Their diet includes practically everything eatable they can capture or kill.

    Usage notes

    Rather informal, due to simple analysis as eat + . edible is the usual term, and much more frequent – eatable may be interpreted as an error – while comestible is relatively formal. More narrowly, used to mean “food that can be eaten, but is not of very high quality ”.

    Synonyms

    * comestible * edible

    Antonyms

    * uneatable

    Coordinate terms

    * drinkable, potable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mostly, in the plural) Anything edible; food.
  • Synonyms

    * comestible * edible

    edible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.
  • edible fruit
  • That can be eaten without disgust.
  • Although stale, the bread was edible .
  • * 1957 , Jane Van Zandt Brower, Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butterflies'', in 1996, Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer (editors), ''Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries , page 81,
  • However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible' than its model, the Monarch, but initially less ' edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.
  • * 2006 , Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs , page 17,
  • Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.
  • * 2009 , Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs , page 4,
  • This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.

    Usage notes

    edible is the most common term for “capable of being eaten”; eatable is rather informal, due to simple analysis as eat with , while comestible is relatively formal.

    Synonyms

    * comestible * eatable * eatworthy

    Antonyms

    * inedible

    Coordinate terms

    * drinkable, potable * delectable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything edible.
  • (marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.
  • Synonyms

    * food

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