Assimilable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation.
"1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A Fabrick of Science Natural, London: Thomas Heath, Book 3, Chapter 15, Section 3, p. 381, […] very deep and large wounds are many times soon healed of themselves; i. e. meerly by the goodness of Nature it self, which being vigorous, and of our own provision furnished with convenient means, wholesom and assimilable Blood, doth every moment freshly apply it to the part that hath suffered solution of Continuity, and thereby redintegrate the same:"
- 1 able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues wordnet
Example
More examples"1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A Fabrick of Science Natural, London: Thomas Heath, Book 3, Chapter 15, Section 3, p. 381, […] very deep and large wounds are many times soon healed of themselves; i. e. meerly by the goodness of Nature it self, which being vigorous, and of our own provision furnished with convenient means, wholesom and assimilable Blood, doth every moment freshly apply it to the part that hath suffered solution of Continuity, and thereby redintegrate the same:"
Etymology
From Latin assimilabilis.
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