ADJECTIVE | all | extensile, extensible | capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out |
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Meaning | capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out. | |
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Example | "an extensile tongue" | |
Synonym | extensible | |
Narrower | protractile, protractible | able to be extended |
protrusile, protrusible | capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | |
Opposite | nonextensile, inextensible, nonprotractile | not extensile |
Spanish | extensible | |
Catalan | extensible |
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