tamable

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But Mr. Carlson wound up being entirely tamable, while the more diminutive Mr. Loughlin lived like a wild man until his tragic death.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2015

It is more tamable and docile than the Himalayan Sun Bear, and is even more eccentric in its ways.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

And among fishes, the family of the Cyprinidae are the best adapted to our purpose; for we must select those which are both hardy and tamable.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various

"Remember that, unlike the zebra, they are tamable in captivity, you'll be soaring with me yet."

From In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date by Burnham, Clara Louise

Take, for example, the common English name of this low-flying falcon, the most tamable and affectionate of his tribe, and therefore, I suppose, fastest vanishing from field and wood, the buzzard.

From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John