eradicable

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Adjective

eradicable (comparative more eradicable, superlative most eradicable)

  1. Capable of being eradicated.
    Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.
    • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138:
      A small but increasingly powerful group of medical doctors and educators [] argued that poor white trash suffered not from hereditary impurities, but from a recently discovered and eradicable parasite, the American hookworm.
    • 2021 February, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2:
      Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.

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