eatable
Usually eatables. articles of food.
Origin of eatable
1Other words from eatable
- non·eat·a·ble, adjective
- un·eat·a·ble, adjective
Words Nearby eatable
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How to use eatable in a sentence
It is, quite literally, an eatable chocolate chip cookie shot glass filled with milk.
Chef Dominique Ansel Discusses His Latest Mouthwatering Creation, the Milk & Cookie Shot, at SXSW | Marlow Stern | March 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou must be greatly in want of some refreshment, for the wretched posadas on the road cannot have offered you any thing eatable.
I'm not enamored of a straight meat diet as a rule, but that evening I was in no mood to carp at anything half-way eatable.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairIn fact, when Henry had thinned out half a row he had quite a little pile of eatable carrots, each as large as his thumb.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerThis was no longer the case at my second visit to Rio, and every thing eatable was much improved.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria Graham
Piso says, that the flesh of the six banded is not eatable; and Nieremberg affirms, that it is unwholesome and pernicious.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
British Dictionary definitions for eatable
/ (ˈiːtəbəl) /
fit or suitable for eating; edible
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