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cultivable

 
(kŭl'tə-və-bəl) pronunciation
adj.
Capable of undergoing cultivation: cultivable land.

cultivability cul'ti·va·bil'i·ty n.

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Fowler's Modern English Usage:

cultivable, cultivatable

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are both used in the meaning 'capable of being cultivated'; the first is more comfortable and was preferred by Fowler (1926). Neither word is particularly common in everyday usage, being recorded with a combined total of less than 100 in the Old English (up to 1150)C, but within this tiny statistic cultivable leads by about six to one.

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