What is the difference between toxic and edible?
toxic | edible |
(toxicology) Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
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.
As adjectives the difference between toxic and edible
is that toxic is (toxicology) having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities while edible is that can be eaten without harm; non-toxic to humans; suitable for consumption.As a noun edible is
anything edible.toxic
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* poisonous * venomousReferences
* * ----edible
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(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.
