organisable

I have heard that a learned inquirer, for whom life is only a conflict of physical and chemical forces, does not despair of one day obtaining artificially organisable matter -- _protoplasm_, as the official jargon has it.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The abdomen is disproportionately distended; swollen, apparently, by the reserve of organisable humours which the expansion of the wings and wing-covers will presently employ.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

In order that the organisable material can shape itself as a sheet of gauze and describe the inextricable labyrinth of the nervuration, there must be something better and more wonderful than a mould.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

To judge from this first examination, one would guess that an organisable fluid is rapidly congealing into a network of nervures; one seems to be watching a process of crystallisation comparable, in its rapidity, to that of a saturated saline solution as seen through a microscope.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Or must the origin of types transmissible by heredity be attributed to causes of another order, to forces whose effects are not apparent in the present state of things, to a creative power independent of the general properties of organisable matter such as we know them to-day? "

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology