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Distensible

adjective
1.
Capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand.






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"Distensible" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the eternal pageant of Destiny. In the days when he hoped to marry Elizabeth, he sought to impress and charm her, and at the same time to take off something of his burthen of forty years, by wearing the last fancy of the contemporary buck, a costume of elastic material with distensible warts and horns, changing in colour as he walked, by an ingenious arrangement of versatile chromatophores. And no doubt, if Elizabeth's affection had not been already engaged by the worthless Denton, and if her tastes had not had that odd bias for old-fashioned ways, ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells



Words linked to "Distensible" :   distend, expansive



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