extensibleness (ekstensiblnes)

Extensibility. extensile (eks-ten's il), a. [L. extensus, pp. of extend ere, extend (see extend, extense), + -ile.] In zoöl. and an at., capable of being extended; extensible; protrusile; adapted for stretching out. If we view the articulated moveable spines and the ex tensile and prehensile tubes in the light of primitive forms of locomotive extremities, we shall see in their great numbers and irrelative repetition an illustration of the same law. Owen , Anat., x.