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colonizable

colonizable adjective: capable of being colonized.

Adjective

colonizable (comparative more colonizable, superlative most colonizable)

  1. Capable of being colonized.
    • Gazing at the magniscreen, he rubbed his palms together in satisfaction. His ship was swinging smoothly in an orbit high above a newly-discovered planet, and the magniscreen was focused on the landscape below. No Dal ship had ever been in this part of the galaxy before, and it was comforting to...1957 July, Randall Garrett, “The Best Policy”, in Astounding Science Fiction

Forms of colonizable

comparativemore colonizable
superlativemost colonizable

Origin of colonizable

From colonize + -able.

Questions about colonizable

What does colonizable mean?
Colonizable means capable of being colonized.
What part of speech is colonizable?
Colonizable is an adjective.

Words near colonizable in the dictionary

  1. colonising
  2. colonist
  3. colonists
  4. colonitis
  5. colonizability
  6. colonizable
  7. colonization
  8. colonizational
  9. colonizationism
  10. colonizationist
  11. colonizationists

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