a. [f. F. cultivable (13–14th c. in Hatzfeld), f. cultiver to CULTIVATE: see -BLE.] Capable of being cultivated.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, VI. 437. It makes as much cultivable Ground, as the Plain of Megara.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 535. A mountainous, broken, yet cultivable country.
1813. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXV. 425. A fruit exclusively cultivable in hot countries.
1863. Ruskin, Munera P. (1880), 112. Faculties … cultivable … by education.
Hence Cultivability, cultivable quality.
1881. Chicago Advance, 8 Sept., 568. The wonderful cultivability of this pastoral art.
1890. Graphic, 11 Oct., 416. This has … diminished the cultivability of the soil.
