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Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.

Suitableness for being eaten.

ited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.…

The quality or state of being credible; worthness of belief; credibility. [R.] Boyle.

Capable of being impeded or hindered. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8.

Incredibility.

Not edible; not fit for food. -- In*ed`i*bil"i*ty (#), n.

Obedient. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Incredible. Bacon.

egradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

aceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).