eradicable
adjEtymology From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.
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Capable of being eradicated.
- 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:
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- Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.2021 February 23, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2:
- Synonyms
- annihilable
- Antonyms
- ineradicable
- Related terms
- eradicate, eradication, eradicative