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Definition of Exsertile
1. a. Capable of being thrust out or protruded.
Definition of Exsertile
1. Adjective. (biology) Capable of being thrust out or protruded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exsertile
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Exsertile
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsertile
Literary usage of Exsertile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"Body furnished with a great exsertile ... Locality, New Guinea. 3. Cymba (Nacelle).
Body furnished with a large exsertile and ..."
2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"... exsertile sucker, with a bunch (grappe) of ovaries ... Body furnished with a
great, exsertile, ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1868)
"When the exsertile portion is protruded, it is completely bottle-shaped, ...
The exsertile portion is of considerable length, is cylindrical in shape, ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"... while its exsertile wrinkled foot ends in a ciliated cup like that of a larval
... Trophi virgate exsertile. Genito-urinary cloaca opening at ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"The exsertile parts of the mantle, are, moreover, capable of great extension.
They have particular muscles which draw them inwards, and they may easily be ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Body elongated with a narrow neck above the disk ; foot ending in a terminal
perforated disk. Trophi virgate exsertile ..."
7. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"Planaria formosa, another marine Planaria, has no exsertile mouth-sucker, but
four groups of ocelli on the anterior part of the back, and is characterized ..."
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