Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
Willing to comply; easily led.
The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.
Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to ...
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