Meanings
comparative more cultivable · superlative most cultivable
- Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183. These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown.
Synonyms: cultivatable, arable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCapable of being cultivated or farmed.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchcoutivable
- Frenchcultivable
- Englishcultivable
From French cultivable, from Old French coutivable.
More words from French, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic صالح للزراعَة
- صالح للزراعَةcapable of being cultivated
Chinese Mandarin 可耕地
- 可耕地 (kěgēngdì)capable of being cultivated
Esperanto kultivebla
- kultiveblacapable of being cultivated
Finnish viljelyskelpoinen
- viljelyskelpoinencapable of being cultivated
French cultivable
- cultivablecapable of being cultivated
German urbar
- urbarcapable of being cultivated
Greek καλλιεργήσιμος
- καλλιεργήσιμος (kalliergísimos)capable of being cultivated
Italian coltivabile
- coltivabilecapable of being cultivated
Norwegian Bokmål dyrkbar
- dyrkbarcapable of being cultivated
Spanish cultivable
- cultivablecapable of being cultivated
Swedish odlingsbar
- odlingsbarcapable of being cultivated
Cite this entry
cultivable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultivable
“cultivable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultivable. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cultivable,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultivable.
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