propagable

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Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.
Capable of being spread or extended by any means, as tenets, doctrines, or principles.

adjective Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.
adjective Capable of being spread or extended by any means; -- said of tenets, doctrines, or principles.

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Elements or Principles, differ not from each other as Metals, Plants and Animals, or as such Creatures as are immediately produc'd each by its peculiar Seed, and Constitutes a distinct propagable sort of

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659
Says Professor Kuntze, "It must be remembered that the plantain is a tree-like, herbaceous plant, possessing no easily transportable bulbs, like the potato or the dahlia, nor propagable by cuttings, like the willow or the poplar.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866