extensile

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The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

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)

The arteries are highly elastic, being extensile and retractile both in length and breadth.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a wormlike extensile tongue.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter

Ampulla: Orthoptera; an extensile sac between head and prothorax used by the young in escaping from oötheca, and later, in molting: Heteroptera; a blister-like enlargement at the middle of the anterior margin of the pro-thorax.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.