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inesculent

adj
/ɪnˈɛskjʊlənt/

Etymology

From in- + esculent.

  1. derived from *h₁ed-✻ — “to eat”
  2. learned borrowing from ēsculentus — “fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food”
  3. prefixed as inesculent — “in + esculent”

Definitions

  1. inedible

    • We could catch one, Tom said, and eat it raw. Though rats are as they say inesculent. The learned word bounced hollowly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inesculent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA