Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of growing or extending, or of being grown or raised.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of growth.

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  • adjective Capable of growing

Etymologies

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grow +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be.

    Multiplication is not repeated addition Bill Kerr 2009

  • Population explosion was generated by growable carbohydrates, ie agriculture.

    Ask Gary a question II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • I still have seeds left and will plant more when the space becomes available - any garden-growable and edible food stuff will be eaten in our house I lie - don't tell her, but I won't eat the radishes my mother-in-law planted for me.

    Salsola Annemarie 2008

  • This structure could be set up easily in the environs of any urban center, making local strawberries growable even in otherwise unhospitable environments.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • This structure could be set up easily in the environs of any urban center, making local strawberries growable even in otherwise unhospitable environments.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • This structure could be set up easily in the environs of any urban center, making local strawberries growable even in otherwise unhospitable environments.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • I still have seeds left and will plant more when the space becomes available - any garden-growable and edible food stuff will be eaten in our house I lie - don't tell her, but I won't eat the radishes my mother-in-law planted for me.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Annemarie 2008

  • That would make a real gardener wedding to have such a lush but growable flower to carry.

    Pee Gee Hydrangea Standards « Fairegarden 2008

  • Are they growable with considerable effort (like here in Arizona) or do they trive without much work there?

    gardening climate? 2004

  • Obviously, the fundamentals of the underlying business count, too, so I exclude American Telephone and Verizon as borderline cases, hardly growable.

    Forbes.com: News Martin Sosnoff 2012

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