extensile
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The strong claws make a hole in the side of the ant-hill, and the insects are collected on the extensile tongue.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.
From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.
This genus has four molars less than the last, a shorter muzzle; the cheek-bones or zygomatic arch more projecting; tongue rather longer and more tapering, and slightly extensile.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
Bill shorter than the head, straight, conical; tongue long and extensile; nostrils without bristles, partly closed by a membrane; wings with the second primary somewhat the longest; tail-feathers soft and flexible.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
