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eradicable

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.

  1. Capable of being eradicated.

    Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.

    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.