What is the difference between edible and fruit?
edible | fruit |
That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.
That can be eaten without disgust.
* 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 ,
* 2006 , Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs ,
* 2009 , Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs ,
Anything edible.
(marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.
(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
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Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
As nouns the difference between edible and fruit
is that edible is anything edible while fruit is (botany) the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.As a adjective edible
is that can be eaten without harm; non-toxic to humans; suitable for consumption.As a verb fruit is
to produce fruit.edible
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Adjective
(en adjective)- edible fruit
- Although stale, the bread was edible .
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 * eatworthyAntonyms
* inedibleCoordinate terms
* drinkable, potable * delectableNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* foodReferences
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*fruit
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(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown
