Esculentus, Adiect. Cic.Any thing to be eaten, or pertaining to eating.Esculenta animalia. Plin. Beastes that men vse as meate.Esculenta frusta.Cic.Morsels of meate that be eaten.Esculenta merx. Col. Vitailes to be solde.Esculento ore homo. Plin. A man with meate in his mouth, or hauing reliques of his meate sticking in his teeth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
escŭlentus, a, um, adj. [id.], fit for eating, good to eat, eatable, edible, esculent; cf. poculentus: frusta, Cic. Phil. 2, 25 fin.; cf. id. N. D. 2, 49; 56fin.; Scaev. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 17; Dig. 33, 9, 3. 3: animalia (with innocua), Plin. 8, 55, 81, 219: merces, Col. 11, 3, 50: ōs, i. e.
filled with food
. Plin. 8, 25, 37, 90.—Comp.: a vino et esculentioribus cibis abstinere, i. e. more delicate, Hier. Ep. 22, 11.