The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extensile \Ex*ten"sile\a.
Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.
--Owen.
Wiktionary
a. extensible
WordNet
adj. capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out; "an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule" [syn: extensible] [ant: nonextensile]
Usage examples of "extensile".
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.
Why every part of a plant whilst it is growing, and in some cases after growth has ceased, should have its cells rendered more turgescent and its cellwalls more extensile first on one side and then on another, thus inducing circumnutation is not known.
The interleavings of its extensile wings were still streaked with dirt.
Worsel announced, curling out one extensile eye toward the vanishing orb.
Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like, metal-studded mass of leathery substance.