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If something is edible, you can eat it and it should not harm you — it is food, or it can be used as food. We reach for the word when there is a real chance the thing might not be safe: a mushroom, a wild plant, a flower on a cake, even an insect.
If something is edible如果一個東西是edible的，you can eat it and it should not harm you你可以吃它而且應該不會傷害你 — it is food, or it can be used as food它是食物，或可以當食物用。We reach for the word我們會用到這個字 when there is a real chance the thing might not be safe是在這東西真的有可能不安全的時候：a mushroom, a wild plant, a flower on a cake, even an insect像蘑菇、野生植物、蛋糕上的花，甚至昆蟲。
It does not mean 'tasty'. A dry is edible; a pretty poisonous berry is not.
It does not mean 'tasty'它的意思不是「好吃」。A dry biscuit is edible乾餅乾是edible的；a pretty poisonous berry is not一顆毒性不小的莓果就不是。
You will also meet it as a noun, usually in the plural: edibles, meaning foods, often the simple kind you pack or pick.
You will also meet it as a noun你也會看到它當名詞用，usually in the plural通常是複數形：edibles, meaning foodsedibles，意思是食物，often the simple kind you pack or pick通常是那種你打包或採摘的簡單食物。
It is a calm, slightly careful word — more at home on a label or in a nature book than in 'I'm hungry, what's in the fridge?', where people just say what can we eat. Though actually, cooks do use it with a smile: 'Are these flowers edible?'
It is a calm, slightly careful word這是個平和、稍微謹慎的詞 — more at home on a label or in a nature book比較常出現在標籤上或自然科普書裡 than in 'I'm hungry, what's in the fridge?'而不是「我肚子餓，冰箱裡有什麼」這種情境，where people just say what can we eat那種情境大家只會說「有什麼可以吃」。Though actually不過其實，cooks do use it with a smile廚師也會笑著用這個字：'Are these flowers edible?'「這些花edible嗎？」
組成From Late Latin edibilis, 'able to be eaten', from Latin edō, 'I eat', plus a suffix that means 'able to be'. English also made eatable from eat; the two words are twins (doublets).
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
edibleadj/ˈɛdɪbəl/
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Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
- edible fruit
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Capable of being eaten without disgust or disrelish.
- Although stale, the bread was edible.
- However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible than its model, the Monarch, but initially less edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.
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In which edible plants are grown for human consumption.
- Gardens do not contain flowers and ornamental plants, but edible plants. Although edible, these gardens are equally valued for their aesthetic qualities. It is women who collect from edible gardens, […]
- To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or two.
ediblenoun/ˈɛdɪbəl/
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Anything edible.
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Anything edible.
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A foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter or other marijuana.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。