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Synonyms for eatable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ee-tuh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈi tə bəl

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Définition of eatable

Origin :
  • late 15c., from eat + -able.
  • adj able to be consumed
Example sentences :
  • "I wish I had them, av they were eatable," said Saladin, as he turned away.
  • Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • As to Doms, nothing that is at all eatable comes amiss to them.
  • Extract from : « Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 » by James Kennedy
  • Like Buster, he lives on anything he can find that is eatable.
  • Extract from : « The Burgess Animal Book for Children » by Thornton W. Burgess
  • In every lot there are orange-trees, with oranges on them; but they are not the eatable fruit.
  • Extract from : « Down South » by Oliver Optic
  • What interested me more than all these was the sight of several articles that were eatable.
  • Extract from : « The Quadroon » by Mayne Reid
  • The Fucus esculentus, a kind of eatable sea-weed on our northern shores.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • The pulp of the bread-fruit between the rind and the core is all eatable.
  • Extract from : « The Cannibal Islands » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • There are but three houses round London at which an eatable dinner may be obtained.
  • Extract from : « Orley Farm » by Anthony Trollope
  • They saw nothing that was eatable—fish, flesh, fowl, or vegetable.
  • Extract from : « The Young Voyageurs » by Mayne Reid
  • Most of them are eatable, and the skins of all of them sell for a good deal of money.
  • Extract from : « Taking Tales » by W.H.G. Kingston

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