Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adapted to culture; cultivable: as, a culturable area.
- Capable of becoming cultured or refined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured.
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- adjective biology Able to be
cultured (grown in a suitable environment)
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Examples
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[Footnote 1: Old sand-banks consolidated by the deposit of a layer of culturable soil.]
Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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Rajputana the valleys of streams might be expected to be the only favourable tracts for settlement, and the name perhaps therefore is a record of the process by which the colonies of Minas in these isolated patches of culturable land developed into exogamous clans marrying with each other.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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In the east of the district much sour clay will become culturable land, and the Bár will be transformed as in the two _tahsíls_ watered by the older canal.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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Between a fourth and a fifth of this area is culturable and cultivated.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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~Hangu~ contains in Upper and Lower Miranzai the most fertile land in the district, but the culturable area of the _tahsíl_ is small and only one-tenth of it is under the plough.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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The culturable commanded area is about one million acres.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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Yes, I believe there is existence beyond our present experience; that that existence is conscious and culturable; and that there is a noble work here and now in helping men to live into it.
A Voice From the South Anna Julia 1892
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In the districts of the Nerbudda, we often see these black hornblende mortars, in which sugar-canes were once pressed by a happy peasantry, now standing upon a bare and barren surface of sandstone rock, twenty feet above the present surface of the culturable lands of the country.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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Our results indicated that culturable somatic cells could be retrieved from bovine organs that had been frozen without cryoprotectant and that the cells could be used for nuclear transfer.
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We obtained live and culturable cells from both the caput epididymis and the spermatic cords but not from the cauda epididymis or the testes.
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