COMESTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comestible mean? 

• COMESTIBLE (noun)
  The noun COMESTIBLE has 1 sense:

1. any substance that can be used as food

  Familiarity information: COMESTIBLE used as a noun is very rare.

• COMESTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective COMESTIBLE has 1 sense:

1. suitable for use as food

  Familiarity information: COMESTIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMESTIBLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any substance that can be used as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

comestible; eatable; edible; pabulum; victual; victuals

Hypernyms ("comestible" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comestible"):

tuck (eatables (especially sweets))

Derivation:

comestible (suitable for use as food)

• COMESTIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suitable for use as food

Synonyms:

comestible; eatable; edible

Similar:

killable (fit to kill, especially for food)

non-poisonous; nonpoisonous; nontoxic (safe to eat)

pareve; parve (containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism)

Also:

digestible (capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal)

palatable; toothsome (acceptable to the taste or mind)

tender (easy to cut or chew)

Derivation:

comestible (any substance that can be used as food)

 Context examples 

If you will allow me to take the liberty of remarking that there are few comestibles better, in their way, than a Devil, and that I believe, with a little division of labour, we could accomplish a good one if the young person in attendance could produce a gridiron, I would put it to you, that this little misfortune may be easily repaired.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)