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Inseminate vs Inseminable - What's the difference?

inseminate | inseminable |

As a verb inseminate

is to sow (to disperse or plant seeds).

As an adjective inseminable is

able to be inseminated or impregnated.

inseminate

English

Verb

(inseminat)
  • To sow (to disperse or plant seeds).
  • To impregnate (to cause to become pregnant).

    • inseminable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be inseminated or impregnated.
  • * 1971 , Gottfried Benn & E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings?
    • Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.
  • * 1996 , V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People?
    • No subject better brought to light the relationship between benevolence, sympathy, and oppositional thought than that of the wronged woman, particularly if she was of inseminable age and fetchingly vulnerable to male wiles.
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