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addible (AD uh b'l) (adjective)
That which can be increased in size, quantity, quality, or scope: Earl found that his yard still had addible areas for more new flowers.
The new part-time job made it possible for Edna to have addible cash for her expenses.
edible (ED uh buhl) (adjective)
Anything that can be safely eaten: Erin was looking for edible fruit on the trees in her back yard.
Josephine was compiling a list of edible vegetation areas in her garden; however, when the calculations were completed, she realized there were still some addible spaces to also cultivate flowers.
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edible (adjective), more edible, most edible
1. That which is fit or safe to consume; especially, by humans: Sam was at the outdoor market on Saturday, looking for some edible fruits and vegetables for his family.
2. Etymology: borrowed from Late Latin edibilis and from Latin edere, "to eat".
2. Etymology: borrowed from Late Latin edibilis and from Latin edere, "to eat".
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(Latin: food; good to eat, eatable, edible)
(Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".)