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   viable
         adj 1: capable of being done with means at hand and
                  circumstances as they are [syn: {feasible}, {executable},
                  {practicable}, {viable}, {workable}]
         2: capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable
            seeds"; "a viable fetus"

English Dictionary: viable by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
viewable
adj
  1. capable of being viewed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Viable \Vi"a*ble\, a. [F., from vie life, L. vita. See {Vital}.]
      (Law)
      Capable of living; born alive and with such form and
      development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of
      a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
  
      Note: Unless he [an infant] is born viable, he acquires no
               rights, and can not transmit them to his heirs, and is
               considered as if he had never been born. --Bouvier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vi-apple \Vi"-ap`ple\, n.
      See {Otaheite apple}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otaheite apple \O`ta*hei"te ap"ple\ [So named from Otaheite, or
      Tahiti, one of the Society Islands.] (Bot.)
      (a) The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree ({Spondias
            dulcis}), also called {vi-apple}. It is rather larger
            than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine,
            but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.
      (b) A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree ({Jambosa
            Malaccensis}) which bears crimson berries.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vi-apple \Vi"-ap`ple\, n.
      See {Otaheite apple}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otaheite apple \O`ta*hei"te ap"ple\ [So named from Otaheite, or
      Tahiti, one of the Society Islands.] (Bot.)
      (a) The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree ({Spondias
            dulcis}), also called {vi-apple}. It is rather larger
            than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine,
            but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.
      (b) A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree ({Jambosa
            Malaccensis}) which bears crimson berries.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vively \Vive"ly\, adv.
      In a lively manner. [Obs.]
  
               If I see a thing vively represented on the stage. --B.
                                                                              Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vow-fellow \Vow"-fel`low\, n.
      One bound by the same vow as another. [R.] --Shak.
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