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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#m1)

2) Edible can describe something made to be eaten that usually is not, like edible glitter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#x1)
- Is the cake decoration edible? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#x2)
- Some flowers, like nasturtiums, are edible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#x3)
- The burnt toast was hardly edible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#x4)
- We made edible slime from cornflour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#x5)
- Never eat a wild mushroom unless an expert says it is edible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#x6)
- The Christmas tree had edible chocolate decorations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «edible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.