extensile

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The first somite has become a prosthomere, and carries a pair of extensile antennae.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" 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 had a long extensile tongue, furnished with a glutinous mucous for securing its insect food.

From In the Wilds of Africa by Pearse, Alfred

An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.

From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.

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)