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 Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace
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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The indications of the instrument record the motions under changes of temperature of such compound bars; in which the proportion of brass, the more dilatable metal, is two-thirds, and of steel one-third.
From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Henry Negretti
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
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