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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Eatable; edible.
  2. n. An eatable; an edible; an article of food.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
  2. n. Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any substance that can be used as food
  2. adj. suitable for use as food

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French comestible, or its source, Late Latin comestibilis, from Latin comedō ("I eat"), from com- (English com-) + edō ("I eat") (as in English edible), from Proto-Indo-European (whence also English eat). (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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