Extensile

Word EXTENSILE
Character 9
Hyphenation ex ten sile
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Extensile"

What do we mean by extensile?

Extensible. adjective

In zoology and anatomy, capable of being extended; extensible; protrusile; adapted for stretching out.

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. adjective

Extensible adjective

Capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out adjective

Extensible

Synonyms and Antonyms for Extensile

The word "extensile" in example sentences

The adult Pangolin has ho teeth, in consequence it cannot bite or eat hard food, and it has a long extensile tongue which can be protruded for a considerable distance through its small tube-like mouth. ❋ Michael Turton (2008)

The whole tongue has a considerable extensile power. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Mylodon, moreover, was furnished with a long extensile tongue like that of the giraffe, which, by one of those beautiful provisions of nature, thus reaches with the aid of its long neck its leafy food. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The bladder also is of the nature of membrane, but of membrane peculiar in kind, for it is extensile. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The talus stopped and rolled backward, one of its extensile arms reaching for Incus. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1994)

"It is time to go," Worsel announced, curling out one extensile eye toward the vanishing orb. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)

_An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage. ❋ Alfred B. Richards (N/A)

When the puncture into the nut is completed one or more eggs are inserted by means of an extensile, thread-like tube, or ovipositor, of the same length as the snout. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Ampulla: Orthoptera; an extensile sac between head and prothorax used by the young in escaping from oötheca, and later, in molting: ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like metal-studded mass of leathery substance. ❋ Unknown (1927)

Omitting these, there are among the larger species, seventeen which are brown, of which twelve are hairy, and two have extensile caudal filaments. ❋ Various (1891)

The arteries are highly elastic, being extensile and retractile both in length and breadth. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

This genus has four molars less than the last, a shorter muzzle; the cheek-bones or zygomatic arch more projecting; tongue rather longer and more tapering, and slightly extensile. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The first one I got had been kept for some time without water, and drank most eagerly when it arrived, in the manner described by Sir Walter Elliot, "by rapidly darting out its long extensile tongue, which it repeated so quickly as to fill the water with froth." ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

In the evening Baby will go out for an airing with the Bearer and Ayah people, and while they dawdle along the dusty road, or sit on kerb-stones and on culvert parapets, he will listen to the extensile tale of their simple sorrows. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)

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