edible

«edible» in Mova's school dictionary: safe and good to eat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (edible)

meaning for a pupil

1) Edible means safe and good to eat. tree →

2) Edible can describe something made to be eaten that usually is not, like edible glitter. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and safety lessons pupils learn that some plants, berries and mushrooms are edible and others are poisonous; in cooking, edible decorations go on cakes. Phrases: «edible plants», «edible mushrooms», «not edible», «edible decorations».

examples

• These berries are edible, but those red ones are poisonous. tree →
• Is the cake decoration edible? tree →
• Some flowers, like nasturtiums, are edible. tree →
• The burnt toast was hardly edible. tree →
• We made edible slime from cornflour. tree →
• Never eat a wild mushroom unless an expert says it is edible. tree →
• The Christmas tree had edible chocolate decorations. tree →

note

Opposite: «inedible». Do not confuse with «eatable» (pleasant enough to eat) or «edit». Safety: you cannot tell if a wild berry or mushroom is edible by its colour or smell; ask an adult.

In the corpora

• Never pick or eat wild mushrooms, and wash your hands if you touched them, because deadly ones look like edible ones.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «edible» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.