Definition of "eatable" []

• Fit to be eaten; edible: an eatable meal. (adjective)
• Something fit to be eaten. (noun)
• Food. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Our tomatoes and other vegetables, as well as those from our local farmers market, were not only edible ( "eatable" in his vernacular), but delicious."
• "The former porter mentioned each successive kind of eatable, as if he were musingly summing up his good actions."
• "That ought to be properly termed an eatable which is given away to a deserving man, in all other cases, he that takes it makes the donor's gift thrown away and the receiver is likewise ruined for his improperly accepting it."