Meaning of esculent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
   formal
2. An edible mushroom.
   formal, specifically

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[T]here is a double Vſe of this Cutting off the Leaues: For in Plants, where the Root is the Eſculent, as Radiſh, and Parſnips, it will make the Root the greater: And ſo it will doe to the Heads of Onions. And where the Fruit is the Eſculent, by Strengthening the Root, it will make the Fruit alſo the greater.”

“They [the Essenes] faſted from meats, not only fleſh, but fiſh, and all other eſculents, but onely ſalt, bread, and herbs; but held not thoſe other meats unlawfull to bee eaten, from which they faſted.”

“I am of the Opinion that Man is not a drinking (becauſe not a carnivorous) Animal, at leaſt no more than a Rabbet, or Sheep, forc'd to it when the Graſs is Sunburnt, parch'd and dry; for if we liv'd as did the Antediluvians, on Fruits, Roots and Herbs, &c. thoſe Eſculents had Moiſture and Succulency enough to abate, (or rather to prevent) Thirſt.”

“The Brinjal (Solanum Melongena, L.) includes the Egg-shaped, Green, and Purple varieties, and is so generally esteemed, throughout India, among the very best of table esculents, that no description of mine can add to its praise. […] Nevertheless, this nutritious esculent, although everywhere plentiful in Spain and Portugal, is never to be procured, except of the egg variety, in Covent Garden or other English markets, and then only in flower-pots;—this is the more strange, because the numerous families from the East and West Indies, would ensure a profitable sale of it, by the speculative gardener.”

“Meanwhile, maize and morning glories, tomatoes and cherry trees, every flower and Esculent known to [Carl] Linnæus, thriv'd.”

“Earth that opens in chasms is altogether useless; and that which is rough can neither support the plants, nor does it afford the circulation of water. Some rough and sandy situations are well adapted to esculents, nonetheless. These soils have plenty of nutritive mould, by which the roots are nourished.”

“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.”

“[Morchella] esculentoides [is] similar to Morchella esculenta, a European esculent, whose name, appropriately, means "edible".”

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