intractile
adjEtymology From in- + tractile.
1
Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.
- intractile muscles
- intractile tentacles
1 more example
- bodies[…]to be drawn forth in length, intractile; porous, solid1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC: