esculent

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Esculent vegetables are various: Rice, which forms the chief part of the African's sustenance.

From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Corry, Joseph

Swallows.—Within thirty-five miles of Caltura, on the western coast, are inland caves, to which the Esculent Swift2481 resorts, and there builds the "edible bird's nest," so highly prized in China.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Mr. Morris assures me, that he has found the nests of the Esculent Swallow eighty miles distant from the sea.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Esculent, es′kū-lent, adj. eatable: fit to be used for food by man.—n. something that is eatable.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

In concluding this account of the nests of birds, I may notice here the nest of the Hirundo esculenta, or Esculent Swallow, an inhabitant of China and the Islands of the Indian Ocean.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) by Various