esculent-, -esculent

1. Suitable to be used by people for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.
2. Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by people.

1. The swallow that makes the edible bird's-nest.
2. The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.

The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of algae. They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resemble isinglass.

A tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in the southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; synonyms: okra, gumbo, okra plant, lady's finger (small finger-shaped sponge cake), Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus.

Unedible; not for eating.

An edible species of the family ranidae, occurring in europe and used extensively in biomedical research. Commonly referred to as "edible frog".

A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock, the fruit is hard and inedible.