esculent

• In France it is not uncommon for the truffle-hunters to use pigs in search of this favourite esculent--the keenness of scent which the animal possesses enabling it to find this hidden treasure, just as it does potatoes or other roots, far under the surface of the ground The Wild Boar_, next to the common domestic variety, is the best known and most celebrated of the swine. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• It is esculent, and serves to sustain human life In an instant, half-a-dozen men were upon their knees, chipping and hacking the hard clay, but their hatchets glinted off as from the surface of a rock Look hyar!' —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• The root of this plant is a valuable and nutritious esculent, and Arthur had described the leaf and flower to us, in order that we might recognise it if met with. —  The Island Home
• The appetite may be praeternaturally increased, either by an unusual secretion of the gastric juice, which acts upon the coats of the stomach, or by any acrimony, either generated in, or received into the stomach, or, lastly, by habit, for people undoubtedly may gradually accustom themselves to take more food than is necessary The appetite sometimes becomes depraved, and a person thus affected, feels a desire to eat substances that are by no means nutritious, or even esculent: this often depends on a debilitated state of the whole system. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
• It is situated on a hill, just above Vincennes_, about three miles from the fauxbourg Saint Antoine_, and is likewise celebrated for its grapes, strawberries, all sorts of wall fruit, pease, and every kind of esculent vegetables. —  A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792

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