exterminable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin exterminabilis (that may be destroyed).

Adjective[edit]

exterminable (comparative more exterminable, superlative most exterminable)

  1. Capable of being exterminated.
    • 1909, William Leon Dawson, John Hooper Bowles, The Birds of Washington, page 99:
      The House Sparrow is no longer exterminable, but he may be, must be kept within bounds.

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