"diggable" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dig + -able.",
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      "form": "more diggable",
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          "word": "undiggable"
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          "text": "The rocky soil was diggable, but only with difficulty.",
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          "ref": "1976 July 24, John Noble Wilford, “SCIENTISTS FEEL THEY CAN FIX ARM ON VIKING LANDER”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Though there seemed to be some “diggable” places, Dr. Levinthal said that the project scientists “might decide to look around” for alternate sampling sites.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 27, Kenneth Chang, “Scientists Link Moon’s Tilt and Earth’s Gold”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Intriguingly, their idea also explains why gold and platinum are found in the Earth’s crust, well within diggable reach.",
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          "ref": "2024 September 7, Melena Ryzik, “Should You Hug a Sloth?”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Two sloths have also died at the Las Vegas SeaQuest. Like all the others, it is located in an indoor shopping center, where natural light, humidity, vegetation and diggable floors — the environmental setting in which many animals thrive — are in short supply.",
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        "Capable of being dug.",
        "Possible and (especially) feasible to dig physically."
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          "Possible",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "excavatable"
        }
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          "text": "Near-synonyms: appreciable, enjoyable"
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          "text": "Yeah, their jazz is diggable, but they leave something on the table by not getting funkier with the horns.",
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        "Capable of being dug.",
        "(uncommon) Worthy of digging (appreciating and enjoying)."
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          "ref": "2015 November 27, Kenneth Chang, “Scientists Link Moon’s Tilt and Earth’s Gold”, in The New York Times:",
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        "(uncommon) Worthy of digging (appreciating and enjoying)."
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