dilatable

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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

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

The first three segments behind the head were dilatable at the will of the insect, and had on each side a large black pupillated spot, which resembled the eye of the reptile.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel

It so happened in this case that the peritoneum was extremely dilatable, and the uterus, with the child inside, made its way into the peritoneal sac.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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