escudo (eskodo)

[Sp. (= It. scudo = F. écu, a coin), esculent (es'kū-lent), a. and n. [L. esculent us, good to eat, eatable (cf. LL. escare, eat), We must not be satisfied with dividing plants, as Dioscorides does, into aromatic, esculent, medicinal, and vinous. Whewell, Hist. Scientific Ideas, II. 115. 2. Furnishing an edible product: as, the escu lent swift (a bird, Col local i a esculent a, whose nests are eaten in soup). II. n. 1. Something that is eatable; that which is or may be used as food. Specifically -2. In common use, an edible vegetable, especially one that may be used as a condiment without cooking. This cutting off the leaves in plants, where the root is the esculent , as in radish and parsnips, it will make the root the greater.