domesticable
- a word derived from domesticate.
Example Sentences
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The most valuable domesticable wild species were concentrated in only nine small areas of the globe, which thus became the earliest homelands of agriculture.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
But any food production that did arise indigenously in Australia would have been limited by the lack of domesticable animals, the poverty of domesticable plants, and the difficult soils and climate.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Once it had lost the head start that it had enjoyed thanks to its locally available concentration of domesticable wild plants and animals, the Fertile Crescent possessed no further compelling geographic advantages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The differences between those trajectories were stamped by continental differences in domesticable plants and animals, germs, times of settlement, orientation of continental axes, and ecological barriers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
A second factor is a corresponding, though less extreme, disparity between sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia in domesticable plants.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
