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单词 acclimatable
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acclimatableadj.

Brit. /əˈklʌɪmətəbl/, U.S. /əˈklaɪmədəbəl/
Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French acclimatable.
Etymology: Probably < French acclimatable (1845) < acclimater acclimate v. + -able -able suffix. Compare acclimatizable adj.
Capable of being acclimatized; suitable for acclimatization.
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1858 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Oct. 416 And in countries where the sugarcane is not acclimatable, sugar is obtained from such other indigenous plants as are known to contain it.
1880 Echo 18 Sept. 2/6 Dr. Ricoux defines what he calls an ‘acclimatable zone’.
1918 P. A. Means Racial Factors in Democracy 228 The other school of anthropological thought on this question is of the opinion that European man is acclimatable in the tropics.
1979 J. A. Couch et al. in Animals as Monitors of Environmental Pollutants (National Academy of Sciences) 65 Many aquatic species are not adaptable or acclimatable to long-term laboratory exposures and manipulations.
2006 E. T. Jennings Curing Colonizers i. 29 It would be a small step to transform the image of the protean, acculturable, acclimatable Jew outlined by Virchow into that..contrasted by late-nineteenth-century racialists with the firmly rooted Aryan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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