extensile
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Ampulla: Orthoptera; an extensile sac between head and prothorax used by the young in escaping from oötheca, and later, in molting: Heteroptera; a blister-like enlargement at the middle of the anterior margin of the pro-thorax.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The arteries are highly elastic, being extensile and retractile both in length and breadth.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like, metal-studded mass of leathery substance.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
It is, in reality, an ant-eater, with the body of a porcupine, having a long slender snout and an extensile tongue, just like that of other ant-eaters.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey
Omitting these, there are among the larger species, seventeen which are brown, of which twelve are hairy, and two have extensile caudal filaments.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by David Starr Jordan
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