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domesticable

domesticable

7.0
People can tame and train an animal to live with them or for work
  • adjective
  • /dəˈmɛstɪkəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : domesticable
  • Some animals, like horses and sheep, are considered domesticable because they can be trained to live alongside humans.

Examples

  • The ability to breed domesticable species has significantly influenced the development of human societies throughout history.

  • This had nothing to do with the nondiffusion of Mediterranean crops, the absence of domesticable plants, or the nonadaptability of tropical crops.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The ultimate causes are three primordial environmental facts: the shapes of the continents, the distribution of domesticable wild plants and animals, and the geographical barriers inhibiting the diffusion of domesticates.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Researchers study which plants are domesticable to improve agricultural practices and support human settlement.

Synonyms

tameable
vsdomesticable
3.5

Able to be trained to live with people

is identical in sense but stresses adaptation for practical human use
tamable
vsdomesticable
4.5

Can learn to be calm and obey people, for example animals

focuses more on long term living and adapting for human use
keepable
vsdomesticable
4.1

Can live under human care, for example as a pet

requires not just being kept but being adapted to live and work with people
trainable
vsdomesticable
  • Specialized
4.6

Able to change how it works by learning from data

involves being made suitable for living with people rather than machine adjustment

How Tame

domesticated
  • Specialized
3.1
tame
9 3.4
domesticable
  • Specialized
7.0
untamed
15 3.8

Surface Forms

domesticable positive

Morphology

domesticable = domestic (transparent) = domestic + able

The adjective 'domestic' ('of the home; tame') combined with productive suffix '-able' yields the straightforward meaning 'able to be made domestic/tamed'.

Etymology

Domesticable comes from the Latin root domus, meaning 'house', and shares this root with domestic and domicile. So to be domesticable is to be able to live in a 'house' or with people, which is why the word means 'able to be tamed or trained'.