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† inˈcicurable, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. mod.L. incicurābilis, f. in- (in-3) + cicurāre to tame; see cicurate and -able.]
That cannot be tamed; hence, of plants, incapable of being introduced into cultivation or naturalized.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 284 Schœnanthum..growing in India, whence it is brought to us..being incicurable by all art. 1776Hunter in Evelyn's Sylva 359 Those [trees]..strangers till of late, and believed incicurable here. |