Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being distended, dilated, or expanded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being distended or dilated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of
swelling orstretching .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand
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Examples
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It is a black six-limbed panther from Hell, the size of a tractor trailer, with an armored head, a venomous striking tail, and massive distensible armored jaws.
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They are the eight or so Balaenoptera species of the mysticete family Balaenopteridae*, all of which open their jaws wide to engulf masses of prey and possess a highly distensible throat pouch and extensible longitudinal grooves on the throat and belly.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Male turkeys - called stags - famously display a distensible frontal process, or snood, fleshy polyp-like lumps called caruncles, and a dewlap that extends from the lower jaw to the neck.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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But it seems that some big pythons are sometimes over-ambitious, attempting to swallow animals that are too big even for their distensible jaws.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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They are the eight or so Balaenoptera species of the mysticete family Balaenopteridae*, all of which open their jaws wide to engulf masses of prey and possess a highly distensible throat pouch and extensible longitudinal grooves on the throat and belly.
A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I Darren Naish 2006
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My medical dictionary describes the stomach as a distensible saclike organ connecting the esophagus and the duodenum (throat and small intestine).
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Krachie and company are arguing, essentially, that a belly of fat is more compressive than skin and muscle are distensible.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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Krachie and company are arguing, essentially, that a belly of fat is more compressive than skin and muscle are distensible.
Inside the Beltway 2005
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Pelicanidae: Huge, heavy body, broad wings, head folded on breast, flaps slowly, white, distensible throat pouch, never far from land, head drawn in while flying.
Chapter 8 1983
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She has made them soft and distensible, so that an apparent physical impossibility could take place, though it is often accompanied by intense suffering.
Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English Henry Stanton
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