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floatability

noun

Etymology

From float + -ability.

  1. derived from *plewd-✻
  2. inherited from *flutōną✻ — “to float”
  3. inherited from *flotōn✻
  4. inherited from flotian — “to float”
  5. inherited from floten
  6. suffixed as floatability — “float + ability”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being floatable

    • Nevertheless, the capacity of fleshy fruits to be dispersed by oceanic currents (resulting from their floatability and viability after prolonged exposure to saltwater) cannot be evaluated without empirical experimentation [3 ,7 ,10 ,16 ].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for floatability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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