expansible
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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
And while human desires were expansible, he doubted whether the demand for goods could possibly increase with sufficient rapidity to absorb the new productive capacities of the nation.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given."
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
Genital tuft: in Lepidoptera; an expansible tuft of fine hair believed to be scent-producing.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
First dealing with temperature as measured by the expansion of a liquid in a less expansible vessel, he showed how it is in reality numerically reckoned.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
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