English Dictionary

esculent

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɛskjʊlənt/

名詞

フォーマル 特定用法

Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible. / (mycology, specifically) An edible mushroom.

日本語の意味

食用のもの、特に野菜などの可食部分として利用されるもの。 / 食用菌、すなわち食用として採取されるキノコ類。

At the farmers' fair, I asked the vendor whether the unfamiliar esculent was a root vegetable or a leafy green.

農産物の市で、見慣れない食用の植物が根菜なのか葉物野菜なのか売り手に尋ねました。

意味（1）

Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.

Thou neuer hadſt in thy houſe to ſtay mens ſtomackes / A peece of Suffolke cheeſe, or Gammon of Bacon, / Or any eſculent, as the learned call it, / For their emolument, but ſheere drinke only.

意味（2）

(mycology, specifically) An edible mushroom.

In a raw state, a piece the size of a pea of either of the three fungi above-mentioned, if placed on the tongue, would cause intolerable agony. Possibly if well cooked some of the poisonous principles might vanish, but we question whether such species should be mentioned amongst esculents in a popular book, simply because a wild Russian could eat some of the plants mentioned, possibly to the accompaniment of a draught of rancid train-oil. Some of the so-called esculents are tough subjects, as Polysporus squamosus and P. fomentarius; we venture to say that if anyone should succeed in getting a slice of the first into his inside it would be a matter of surprise to his friends if he ever got a slice of anything else in.

esculents （ plural ）