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Definition of Protrusile
1. Adjective. Capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue.
Similar to: Extensible, Extensile
Derivative terms: Protrude, Protrude, Protrude
Definition of Protrusile
1. a. Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.
Definition of Protrusile
1. Adjective. Capable of being protruded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protrusile
Literary usage of Protrusile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"<fv Number of depressions seventy-seven; small protrusile tentacle-like sacks
... Number of depressions 64-120; no protrusile sacs: in fresh-water mussels ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Body ovate or angular with dorsal side concave. No protrusile pharynx ...
pharynx protrusile. A strong furrow on the ventral surface. ..."
3. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1883)
"They are not, however, single; but each protrusile organ consists of a pair of
transparent, brittle, glassy rods, shaped like an italic /, of which the ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"... frontally : jaws protrusile : alimentary canal very large, projecting behind
and above the gizzard, always filled with green matter. ..."
5. The Intellectual Observer (1864)
"The mouth consists of a short tube, evidently protrusile, with a dark oval speck
at the bottom in the centre, where a straight slender tube originates, ..."
6. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada: With Special by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, William Morris Davis, Charles William Woodworth, Leland Ossian Howard, Charles Valentine Riley, Samuel Wendell Williston (1889)
"... we have a protrusile pencil of long hairs (61:49,59), ... Fritz Müller has
shown the existence of a pair of protrusile ..."
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