eradicable
English
Etymology
From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.
Adjective
eradicable (comparative more eradicable, superlative most eradicable)
- Capable of being eradicated.
- Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.
- 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138:
- A small but increasingly powerful group of medical doctors and educators […] argued that poor white trash suffered not from hereditary impurities, but from a recently discovered and eradicable parasite, the American hookworm.
- 2021 February, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2:
- Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.