esculent

How to use esculent in a sentence

• This is an esculent resembling arrowroot, which they dig, pulverize, and use as flour.

  Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War | Various

• Miller observes, that it was formerly cultivated as an esculent plant, the green pods being dressed and eaten as peas.

  The Botanical Magazine, Vol. V | William Curtis

• From the above it will be seen that this esculent contains no nitrogen.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• Taste: Sweet, which applies only to the pink or white condition, at which time alone the species is considered esculent.

  Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them | William Hamilton Gibson

• Arracacha, ar-a-kach′, n. an umbelliferous plant with esculent roots, native to the northern parts of South America.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) | Various