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🔋 Able to renew 🦎 Able to regrow
regenerable

regenerable

6.8
Can grow back lost or damaged body parts like a limb
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈdʒɛnərəbəl/
  • Specialized
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  • Some species of lizards are known to have regenerable tails that can grow back after being lost.

Examples

  • Researchers are studying regenerable organs in order to improve healing processes in humans.

  • The concept of regenerable tissues is essential in the field of regenerative medicine.

  • Accordingly, if there were a cell fusion promoter usable safely in the living body, damaged living tissue would be regenerable by using various somatic stem cells.

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Synonyms

regenerative
vsregenerable
8 5.6

Can make damaged body parts or tissue grow back

is limited to biological regrowth of parts, tissues, or organs
self-renewing
vsregenerable
  • Specialized
1 7.0

Able to make new cells or parts by itself

refers to regrowing lost parts rather than continuous self renewal

Antonyms

irreparable
24 7.6

Too badly damaged to be fixed or made right again

How Regenerative

regenerable
  • Specialized
6.8
nongenerative
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

regenerable positive

Morphology

regenerable = regenerate (semi-transparent) = re + generate + able

Given the verb 'regenerate', adding '-able' straightforwardly yields the meaning 'capable of regenerating or being regenerated'.

Etymology

The word regenerable comes from re- 'again' and generate 'to make', the same root you find in generation. So a regenerable limb or tissue can 'grow again' or be made new after injury.