esculent

The author will not assume the responsibility of instructing how to distinguish the esculent mushrooms.

From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

Pork, accompanied by some green esculent, boiled, predominated.

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

Root′-cap, a cap-like layer of cells at the tip of roots; Root′-crop, a crop of esculent roots, esp. of single-rooted plants, as turnips, &c.;

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

It is very generally esteemed as an esculent among mycophagists.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor

Like a luscious, esculent morsel he rolled the words over and over.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald