(a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
(n.) Anything edible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basic foodstuffs, such as flour, sugar and edible oils, are heavily subsidised.
(2) We tested semihardened blends of edible oils, suitable for commercial food manufacture, with a lower-than-conventional saturated fatty acid content, for their effects on plasma cholesterol.
(3) The insecticides did not translocate into the edible parts of the vegetables but were present in the root system of onion and lettuce.
(4) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(5) A simple procedure for the enzymic digestion of edible tissues is described and compared with other procedures.
(6) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(7) The unsuspecting public may not realise that the call to avoid palm oil is nothing more than a trade ploy since in recent years palm oil has been very competitive and has gained a major share of the world's edible oils and fats market.
(8) Culture of Gambusia along with edible fish in village ponds is, therefore, recommended to get the dual benefit of fish production and control of mosquito proliferation in village ponds.
(9) The longterm solution to vitamin A deficiency is community development and increased consumption of dark green edible plants and red and orange fruits.
(10) Beacon Food Forest, Seattle, Washington, US This Seattle project, called the Beacon Food Forest, is turning public land into an edible forest where residents can forage for fruits, pumpkins and nuts.
(11) Two regions of the brain of the edible snail were stimulated.
(12) Evidence is presented which establishes that mackerel fed in captivity can, by relay from contaminated shellfish via sand eels, accumulate paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) in the edible flesh at a level (250 micrograms saxitoxin equivalents per kg) similar to that in the contaminated shellfish.
(13) Optimal conditions were chosen for cultivation of Escherichia coli 85 cells with a rather high fumarate-hydratase activity on a cheap medium containing no edible raw material.
(14) Variously billed as edible networking, curry induced knowledge exchange, and a good excuse to eat curry and chat social care, the appetite for curry has surpassed all expectations.
(15) Loliware and WikiFoods have had relatively good success since launching their products this year, but whether people will have an appetite for edible technology as the future of sustainable packaging is yet to be determined.
(16) Runner-up: RISC edible roof garden and alternative kitchen garden Jupiter Big Idea Winner: Naturepaint Naturepaint is a totally natural paint product that comes in a powder form.
(17) separable lean, separable fet, and total edible portions of Choice grade cuts of beef is given, as well as a table acids per 100 gm.
(18) The edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus (with locally reported toxic properties) was identified and collected 1-4 days after raining in the city of Baghdad.
(19) Functional movement training avoidance plus edibles and praise produced about 90% attention for the three children, while edibles and praise alone were less effective (eye contact never exceeded 55%).
(20) Nutrient composition and biologic utilization of cooked, dried, and ground meals prepared from fresh and field-dried, green-seeded edible soybeans were evaluated.
Spoilt
Definition:
() of Spoil
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the stories that took hold about the Klebolds after the shooting was that they were rich, and that Dylan’s violent behaviour was an extreme version of a spoilt child’s petulance.
(2) There's an irony here: Bausch was so influential they'll be spoilt for choice if they want choreographers like her.
(3) Veruca Salt from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is spoilt.
(4) A series of 75 spoilt soft lenses with opacities (mostly manifesting as discrete spots or as large areas of cloudiness, chalk-white in appearance) were subjected to histochemical, electron microscopical, electron probe x-ray microanalytical, x-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectro-photometric, and biochemical analyses.
(5) Iknow other mothers probably think my son is spoilt, that I indulge him more than they do their own kids.
(6) Brendan Rodgers was not being spoilt afterwards when he said his team should have scored more and there was something revealing about the way Wenger took off Özil, Olivier Giroud and Nacho Monreal in one triple substitution.
(7) At Bodenham you are spoilt for choice, with long sandy beaches and river pools [see footnote].
(8) "This policy has so many downsides – it violates natural law, it makes kids spoilt and thankless," she said.
(9) Some felt it was the most likable she had ever been while others believed it to be evidence that she was nothing but a spoilt brat.
(10) The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said on Twitter : "Some of these Tories are foul-mouthed spoilt little brats and now one caught by the Sun."
(11) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
(12) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
(13) "Seb is a person of such talent that he is spoilt for choice," said Jowell.
(14) Spain , though, are spoilt for choice when it comes to central midfielders of class and achievement.
(15) As far as politicised literature and literary criticism went, the Russian intelligentsia were spoilt for choice.
(16) On the official memorial page set up by her brother James he wrote: "I fell asleep on the track lolz," and posted images of her with text saying she was spoilt.
(17) For him, and a growing number of his generation, the south is a refuge from the insane consumerism of America's coastal cities, a less-spoilt idyll, where roots run deep.
(18) She used to be just a rich society girl: thin, blonde, with a sharp tongue and a reputation for being spoilt.
(19) Which is possibly why we "onlies" have such a bad rep. We're either spoilt brash extroverts or loner introverts, selfish to the core.
(20) They’re acting like spoilt children in a playground, who don’t want to hear that playing with matches could burn down the school.