protrudable

English

Etymology

Adjective

protrudable (not comparable)

That may be protruded.
- 1874, Charles Darwin, “Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals—continued”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 529:
  The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “protrudable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)