comestible

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The "cars" - constructed of stuff like pretzels, cookies, corn on the cob or any other comestible - are each about a foot long and have to roll down a 10-foot ramp on three or four operational wheels to successfully compete in the categories of aerodynamics, style, design, creativity, durability and speed.

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  1. adjective Fit to be eaten; edible.
  2. noun Something that can be eaten as food: meat, cheese, and other comestibles.

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  • As of Jan. 1, based on the assumption that informed consumers will make healthier food choices, more than 1,500 fast-food and chain restaurants throughout Seattle and King County will be required to post on their menu boards or some other "easily readable" sign how many calories, milligrams of sodium or grams of saturated fat and carbohydrates are contained in that burger, fries, salad, smoothie, mocha latte or other comestible. —  Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
  • Then there's Spain, who with all their pollytunnels are going to be the big winners from all this comestible inflation. —  Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
  • La señora Porfiria Martínez quien se dedica a la venta de comestible e invertirá el dinero en la compra de mercaderas para la elaboración de los comestibles. —  Kiva Loans
  • La señora Justa Ruiz se dedica a la venta de comestible e invertirá el dinero en la compra de insumo para la elaboración de los comestibles. —  Kiva Loans
  • La señora Agueda Gómez, se dedica a la venta de comestible e invertirá el dinero en la compra de insumo para la elaboración de los comestibles. —  Kiva Loans
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  1. French, from Old French, from Late Latin comēstibilis, from Latin comēstus, alteration (influenced by pōtus, drunk) of comēsus, past participle of comedere, to eat up : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + edere, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French comestible = Spanish comestible = Portuguese comestivel = Italian commestibile, from Late Latin comestibilis, eatable, from Latin comestus, usually comesus, past participle of comedere, eat up, consume, from com- (intensive) + edere = English eat.
 

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