tameable

[ tey-muh-buhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

The civets are naturally wild, and even ferocious; and though tameable to a certain degree, they are never perfectly familiar.

Indeed, so attached had all the more tameable animals become to our uncle, that they would follow at his call, wherever he went.

The Chimpanzee is lively, and—at least when young—teachable and tameable.

As its vernacular name implies it is used for sport, and is quite easily tameable.

I did not find the American chipmunks, before alluded to, at all tameable.

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