"Linchi" is a word in ENGLISH

An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact …

The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.

The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.

Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.

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

Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.

Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.

Pertaining to pot herbs; of the nature or having the qualities of herbs for cookery; esculent.

A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used …

A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.

An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, …

The esculent swallow. See under Esculent.

A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of …