ineradicable

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English eradicable English ineradicable From in- + eradicable.

1. Not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.

   “The procatarctick causes render the Disease more or less curable: a Consumption of grief, as it moves more slowly than others, so its malign effects are impressed with a more certain and irresistable force; wherefore unless prevented in the bud, takes an ineradicable root.”

   “And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass, Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds Draining their growth […]”