a. [f. L. extens- ppl. stem of extendĕre to EXTEND + -ILE.]

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  1.  Capable of being stretched out; extensible.

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1744.  Armstrong, Preserv. Health, II. 55, note. As these small vessels become solid, the larger must of course grow less extensile.

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1831.  R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 603. It is connected with the neighbouring parts by an extensile cellular tissue.

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1883.  Chamb. Jrnl., 13. The capsules of its [a child’s] joints [are] more extensile than ours.

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  2.  Of the tongue, a tentacle, etc.: Capable of being protruded.

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1802.  Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), I. 125. The tongue [is] cylindrical and extensile.

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1858.  T. R. Jones, Aquar. Nat., 69. The Hydratuba … with thirty or more very extensile, flexible, slender tentacula.

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1879.  A. R. Wallace, Australasia, iii. 56. [Tarsipes] is a true honeysucker with an extensile tongue.

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