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boxable

boxable adjective: capable of, or suitable for, placing in a box.

Adjective

boxable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, placing in a box.
    • On the other hand, it has been said, and probably without exaggeration, that the average crop of apples grown in commercial orchards in this country does not include more than 15 per cent, of fruit of boxable quality.1922, Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture: Volume 29
  2. (fighting) boxfightable, punchable
    • Some people are more easily boxable than others.

Origin of boxable

From box + -able.

Words formed from boxable

Questions about boxable

What does boxable mean?
Boxable means capable of, or suitable for, placing in a box.
What part of speech is boxable?
Boxable is an adjective.

Words near boxable in the dictionary

  1. box-turtle
  2. box-turtles
  3. box-whisker plot
  4. box-whiskers plot
  5. boxa
  6. boxable
  7. Boxador
  8. Boxadors
  9. boxaerobics
  10. Boxall
  11. boxart

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