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es·cu·lent

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ADJECTIVE:

Suitable for eating; edible.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin sculentus, from sca, food, from edere, s-, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
escu·lent(Noun)

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