extensile

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The arteries are highly elastic, being extensile and retractile both in length and breadth.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

It lacks the long, extensile tongue which enables the other species to probe the winding galleries of wood-eating larvæ.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 by Various

C�sium, sēz′i-um, n. a silver-white, soft, and extensile alkaline metal, almost always found along with rubidium, discovered by Bunsen and Kirchhoff in 1860 by spectrum analysis.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It has an excessively long, slender muzzle, and a worm-like, extensile tongue.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas

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

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)