dilatable
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A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
It is said that three pounds’ weight of ‘eider down’ can be compressed to the size of a man’s fist, and yet is afterwards so dilatable as to fill a quilt of five feet square.
From The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by Harvey, William
They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved teeth, but they had paddlelike feet.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O by Project Gutenberg
Many birds have the œsophagus or the skin of the neck more or less dilatable, but in no known bird is it so dilatable as in the pouter pigeon.
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
Its fibrous envelope must, as far as possible, be preserved intact, but this interferes the less with the operation, as it is comparatively freely dilatable.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
