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Cultivable

Definition: Cultivable

Cultivable

Adjective

1. (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cultivable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references)


Synonyms: Cultivable

Synonyms: arable (adj), cultivatable (adj), tillable (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: capable of being cultivated (food & agriculture), croppable.

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Crosswords: Cultivable

Non-English Usage: "Cultivable" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (arable, tillable), Spanish (arable, cultivable, tillable).

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cultivable

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Angola

It specifies a minimum amount of cultivable land for each family, provides for freedom from landmines and provisions for health centers, schools, water, drainage, equipment, and farm supplies, and it includes requirements for coordination between the provinces and traditional authorities. (references)

Economic History

Lithuania

Cultivable land--1.36 million ha, of which 60% arable, 18% meadow, 13% pasture. (references)

Pakistan

Agricultural production is the single major contributor to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Forty percent of Pakistan's total area of 197 million acres is cultivable land and produces a wide variety of crops including cotton, rice, wheat, sugarcane and tobacco. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cultivable

"Cultivable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cultivable" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cultivable

Expression using "cultivable": cultivable land. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cultivable

Language Translations for "cultivable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i punueshën. (various references)

   

Danish

  

opdyrkelig (capable of being cultivated, croppable), dyrkbar (capable of being cultivated, croppable). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ontginbaar (capable of being cultivated, croppable). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viljelykelpoinen (capable of being cultivated, croppable). (various references)

   

French

  

cultivable (capable of being cultivated). (various references)

   

German

  

kultivierbar (cultivatable), bildungsfähig, bebaubar (arable, suitable for building, workable). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλλιεργήσιμος (capable of being cultivated, croppable). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

dapat ditanami. (various references)

   

Italian

  

coltivabile (capable of being cultivated, croppable). (various references)

   

Manx

  

yn-troarey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ultivablecay

   

Romanian

  

cultivabil (tillable). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cultivable (arable, tillable). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

odlingsbar (arable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

işlenebilir (farmable, forgeable, penetrable, tractable, workable), ekilebilir (arable). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

орнопридатний, орний (arable, tillable). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cultivable

Derivations

Words ending with "cultivable": uncultivable. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cultivable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cultivi, culturable. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cultivable"

Words rhyming with "cultivable" (pronounced 'Cul"ti*va*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Cultivable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-l-t-u-v"

-2 letters: balletic.

-3 letters: ballute, bullace, bullate, citable, cubital, eluvial, livable, victual.

-4 letters: abulic, active, aculei, albeit, albite, alible, atelic, ballet, billet, blivet, bullae, bullet, cablet, callet, cullet, eluvia, labile, liable, luetic, luteal, tabuli, taille, telial, tuille, viable, villae.

-5 letters: acute, alive, aulic, beaut, blate, bleat, blite, bluet, built, bulla, butle, cable, calve, cavie, cavil, ceiba.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-l-t-u-v"
 

+2 letters: cultivatable, uncultivable.

 

+5 letters: cultivabilities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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