pasturable

[pas-cher-uh-buhl, pahs-]

adjective

1. capable of providing pasture, as land.

Other Word Forms

• pasturability noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pasturable¹

First recorded in 1570–80; pasture + -able

Example Sentences

Spurs of the Cheviots as these are, they rise to a considerable elevation, but are pasturable nearly to the top.

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And perhaps, upon the same principle, the formation of such words as actionable, companionable, exceptionable, marketable, merchantable, pasturable, treasonable, and so forth, may be justified, if care be taken to use them in a sense analogous to that of the real verbals.

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It is calculated that a twentieth of south-eastern Alaska is available for agriculture, and that of the entire country 100,000 sq. m. are pasturable or tillable.

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