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Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as,esculent plants; esculent fish.Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones.Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's-nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.
The quality of being a comestible.
Fit to be eaten; edible.
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