We have a surplus of rice, tobacco, furs, peltry, potash, lamp-oils, timber, which France wants; she has a surplus of wines, brandies, Esculent oils, fruits, and manufactures of all kinds, which we want.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
All the cereals, fruits and Esculent roots, adapted to the climate, produce in perfection and abundance.
"The History of Peru"
Henry S. Beebe
But the correction which was based apparently on some supposed connection of the word with yuca, the Haitian name of an Esculent plant, is superfluous, and Las Casas himself never employs it, nor a single other writer.
"The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations"
Daniel G. Brinton