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Meanings of tameable in English

Capable of being tamed.

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Examples for "tamable"
1
The safety of my coffee cup illustrates how the randomness of the Gaussian is tamable by averaging.
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
2
Quite easily tamable, though naturally shy.
Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
3
A hawk or an eagle is never tamed, but a crow is more easily and completely tamable than the gentlest singing-bird.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 / A Maga...
4
I like to tame circumstances to my own ends (hear, hear), but if they aren't tamable I let them alone.
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
5
"Remember that, unlike the zebra, they are tamable in captivity, you'll be soaring with me yet."
In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to Date
Usage of tameable in English
1
The tiger is tameable, the panther not so.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
2
Indeed, so attached had all the more tameable animals become to our uncle, that they would follow at his call, wherever he went.
In the Eastern Seas
3
Are there any animals, wild or domestic, tameable or untameable, in America, which are of a species known to exist at this day in Tartary?
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1
Tameable through the time