extensile, a.
(ɛkˈstɛnsaɪl, -ɪl)
[f. L. extens- ppl. stem of extendĕre to extend + -ile.]
1. Capable of being stretched out; extensible.
| 1744 Armstrong Preserv. Health ii. 55 note, As these small vessels become solid, the larger must of course grow less extensile. 1831 R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 603 It is connected with the neighbouring parts by an extensile cellular tissue. 1883 Chamb. Jrnl. 131 The capsules of its [a child's] joints [are] more extensile than ours. |
2. Of the tongue, a tentacle, etc.: Capable of being protruded.
| 1802 Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) I. 125 The tongue [is] cylindrical and extensile. 1858 T. R. Jones Aquar. Nat. 69 The Hydratuba..with thirty or more very extensile, flexible, slender tentacula. 1879 Wallace Australas. iii. 56 A true honeysucker with an extensile tongue. |