eradicable en · ADJ
Etymology
From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.
Meanings
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Capable of being eradicated.
Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.
2021 February 14, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2:Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.
A small but increasingly powerful group of medical doctors and educators […] argued that poor white trash suffered not from hereditary impurities, but from a recently discovered and eradicable parasite, the American hookworm.
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more eradicable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most eradicable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
Relateds
eradicate · eradicative · eradication
Synonyms
Translations (6)
el εκριζώσιμος (capable of being eradicated) · ja 無くせる (capable of being eradicated) · ja 根絶できる (capable of being eradicated) · el εξαλείψιμος (capable of being eradicated) · pl możliwy do wykorzenienia (capable of being eradicated) · ja 根刮ぎにできる (capable of being eradicated)