Definition of comestible

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co·mes·ti·ble    (k-mst-bl) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

Fit to be eaten; edible.

NOUN:

Something that can be eaten as food: meat, cheese, and other comestibles.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French, from Late Latin comstibilis, from Latin comstus, alteration (influenced by ptus, drunk), of comsus, past participle of comedere, to eat up com-, intensive pref. ; see com- + edere, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots