weedableadj.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sarcable, weedable, fit to be weeded.

1814 W. Davies Gen. View Agric. & Domest. Econ. S. Wales I. vii. 422 Weeding is too frequently omitted, where most necessary; and commonly delayed, until thistles, dock, fern, cow-parsnip, &c. the most common weedable plants, are nearly full grown.

1922 H. Jenkinson Man. Arch. Admin. v. 167 It follows that we must compromise—do our best to restore these War Archives to the position of Archives of the Future, Archives yet in the making and therefore weedable.

1957 Spectator 22 Mar. 383/1 It might be said of some novels that they are eminently weedable. Progress through them is impeded..by tares that should have been hoed out of the typescript.

1970 P. Gellatly in W. C. Allen Serial Publ. in Large Libraries 41 A library may decide that it will weed its collection, but..as weeding progresses, it becomes an increasingly more difficult matter to unearth weedable items.

2017 Financial Times 17 June 22 The soil became as hard as brick and made the job impossible without the chore of watering each weedable area for hours before beginning to work on it.