Definitions for extensile

extensile ex·ten·sile

Spelling: [ik-sten-suh l, -sahyl]
IPA: /ɪkˈstɛn səl, -saɪl/

Extensile is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in extensile (eeeilnstx).

Definitions for extensile

adjective

  1. capable of being extended; adapted for stretching out; extensible; protrusible.

Origin of extensile

First recorded in 1735-45; extens(ion) + -ile

Examples for extensile

It is really astonishing to see what large morsels they can dispose of with the assistance of their extensile mouths and stomachs.

It has an excessively long, slender muzzle, and a worm-like, extensile tongue.

The tongue is long and extensile, and is much attenuated towards the tip, where it is covered with strong and recurved papillae.

It lacks the long, extensile tongue which enables the other species to probe the winding galleries of wood-eating larvæ.

There are no teeth; and although the tongue is long and worm-like, it is not extensile.

The only other North American birds that have a tongue built upon this plan are the hummingbirds, in which also it is extensile.

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