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carveable

carveable is the alternative form of carvable.

Meaning of carvable

Adjective

carvable (comparative more carvable, superlative most carvable)

  1. Capable of being carved.
    • Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2

Forms of carveable

comparativemore carveable
superlativemost carveable

Origin of carveable

From carve + -able.

Questions about carveable

What is carveable the alternative form of?
Carveable is the alternative form of carvable.

Words near carveable in the dictionary

  1. carve-out
  2. carve-outs
  3. carve-up
  4. carve-ups
  5. carveability
  6. carveable
  7. carved
  8. carved in stone
  9. carved out
  10. carved up
  11. carvedilol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carveable (page history and authors); carvable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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