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Protractile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. That can be protracted; extensible: protractile limbs and claws.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That can be protracted (as a cat's claws)

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Susceptible of being drawn forward or thrust out, as the tongue of a woodpecker; protrusile: correlated with retractile, that which is one being also the other.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. able to be extended

Word Usage

"If in the free (protractile) portion of the penis, that organ is to be withdrawn from its sheath until the nodule is exposed and can be incised."

Equivalent

extensible extensile

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

protrusile