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cultivable

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Capable of being cultivated or farmed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183. These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

(of farmland) capable of being farmed productively

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: arable, cultivatable, tillable

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From French cultivable, from Old French coutivable.

Across languages

Translations

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Arabic: صالح للزراعَة — capable of being cultivated
Chinese Mandarin: 可耕地 (kěgēngdì) — capable of being cultivated
Esperanto: kultivebla — capable of being cultivated
Finnish: viljelyskelpoinen — capable of being cultivated
French: cultivable — capable of being cultivated
German: urbar — capable of being cultivated
Greek: καλλιεργήσιμος (kalliergísimos) — capable of being cultivated
Italian: coltivabile — capable of being cultivated
Manx: yn-troarey — capable of being cultivated
Norwegian Bokmål: dyrkbar — capable of being cultivated
Norwegian Nynorsk: dyrkbar — capable of being cultivated
Serbo-Croatian: обра̀див — capable of being cultivated
Serbo-Croatian: obràdiv — capable of being cultivated
Spanish: cultivable — capable of being cultivated
Swedish: odlingsbar — capable of being cultivated

Word forms

Inflections and variants

more cultivable — comparative
most cultivable — superlative

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: noncultivable, uncultivable

Related: productive

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