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What does docile mean?

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Adjective
  1. Ready to accept instruction or direction, obedient, subservient.
  2. Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
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Next morning, I joined a walking ride and the cowboys, or wranglers, as they call them here, gave me a very docile horse.
With its striking brown and white markings and glossy skin, the somewhat docile snake was weighed and checked in at 26,6kg.
Unlike a horse, a zorse must begin training within a few days of being born in order to be a docile animal.
A docile Labrador dog was tethered five metres away from its owner, who was disguised as a tradesman.
I am not keen on baboon spiders as pets, but if you want to try something different from the usual docile tarantulas then these may be for you.
Irish centenarians are largely a docile, low-maintenance lot who ask little of the state and get little from it.

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