Edible vs Victual - What's the difference?
edible | victual |
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.
Food fit for human consumption.
* Knolles
* Tennyson
(Scotland) grain of any kind
To provide with food; to provision.
To lay in food supplies.
To eat.
As nouns the difference between edible and victual
is that edible is anything edible while victual is food fit for human consumption.As an adjective edible
is that can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.As a verb victual is
to provide with food; to provision.edible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- edible fruit
- Although stale, the bread was edible .
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.
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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
*Anagrams
*victual
English
Alternative forms
* victuall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual .
- There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand / Bare victual for the movers.