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Definition of Extirpable
1. Adjective. Capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out.
Definition of Extirpable
1. a. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant.
Definition of Extirpable
1. Adjective. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Extirpable
1. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extirpable
Literary usage of Extirpable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... a. extirpable, eradicable 91, vt to extirpate, to eradi- to destroy, to
exterminate ing, /. extirpation, excision, ation, extermination en, ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1884)
"His chief regret is that there is such a paucity of extirpable material within
the compass of a single body. Nature has turned out of her mysterious ..."
3. A Critical Examination of Irish History: Being a Replacement of the False by by Thomas Dunbar Ingram (1904)
"... there existed in the breast of every Irish Catholic an in- extirpable abhorrence
of the English name and power".1 In another part of the same journal, ..."
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