Definitions
suitable for use as food
Word origin
From eat + -able (“able, capable”). Doublet of edible.
Used in a sentence
“The contents of the pan began to boil, and he turned to plunge his hand into the bowl; I conjectured that this preparation was probably for our supper, and, being hungry, I resolved it should be eatable;”
“When the seeds are larger, softer, and more eatable, they are protected by an excessively hard and stony covering, as in the plum and peach tribe ; or they are enclosed in a tough horny core, as with crabs and apples.”
“Their diet includes practically everything eatable they can capture or kill.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fit for food”7 letters
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