cultivable
English
Etymology
From French cultivable, from Old French coutivable.
Adjective
cultivable (comparative more cultivable, superlative most cultivable)
- Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183.
- These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183.
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Derived terms
Translations
capable of being cultivated
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kyl.ti.vabl/
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Further reading
- “cultivable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kultiˈbable/ [kul̪.t̪iˈβ̞a.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: cul‧ti‧va‧ble
Adjective
cultivable m or f (masculine and feminine plural cultivables)
- cultivable
- arable
- Synonym: arable
Further reading
- “cultivable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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