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eradicable

adj

Etymology

From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.

  1. derived from ērādīcābilis

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.

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