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Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : es-kyuh-luh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛs kyə lənt

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Définition of esculent

Origin :
  • 1620s, from Latin esculentus "good to eat, eatable," from esca "food," from PIE *eds-qa- (cf. Lithuanian eska "appetite"), from root *ed- "to eat" (see edible).
  • adj fit to be eaten
  • noun food
Example sentences :
  • I have never eaten it, but I have no doubt of its esculent qualities.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • It is not equal to many others of the Hypholomas as an esculent.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • Esculent plants are those suitable for food (literally, full of food).
  • Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins
  • It is of little value as an esculent, and is rarely cultivated.
  • Extract from : « The Field and Garden Vegetables of America » by Fearing Burr
  • It is astringent, esculent, and possesses a rich flavour and odour.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
  • The esculent variety, in Europe, is the common green or gibbous frog, the Rana esculenta of Linnus.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Like a luscious, esculent morsel he rolled the words over and over.
  • Extract from : « The Red Debt » by Everett MacDonald
  • Here is a great variety of plants to enrich the collection of a botanist, but very few of them are of the esculent kind.
  • Extract from : « A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 » by Robert Kerr
  • This esculent is very bad to eat raw, but boiled it is better than the yam.
  • Extract from : « Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific » by Gabriel Franchere
  • During these melancholy periods of want, everything in the shape of an esculent disappears.
  • Extract from : « The Poor Scholar » by William Carleton
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