domesticate
verb (used with object)
domesticable
-
a word derived from
domesticate.
Example Sentences
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We can’t possibly hope to examine all the wild plant species of even a circumscribed area like California, and to assess how many of them would have been domesticable.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Second, the New Guinea fauna included no domesticable large mammal species whatsoever.
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
Eurasian peoples happened to inherit many more species of domesticable large wild mammalian herbivores than did peoples of the other continents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
