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)
- 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.