fit or suitable to be eaten; not poisonous 适宜食用的;(无毒而)可以吃的 The food at the hotel was barely edible. 这家旅馆的食物简直不能入口。 edible fungi/snails/flowers 可食用的真菌/蜗牛/花 The vegetables were old but still looked edible. 这些蔬菜很老了,但看起来仍然可以食用。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEdible is used with these nouns:- mushroom
- snail
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Latin edibilis, from Latin edere ‘eat’.