extensile
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Tongue long, pointed and extensile, though to a less degree than in the anteaters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Ampulla: Orthoptera; an extensile sac between head and prothorax used by the young in escaping from oötheca, and later, in molting: Heteroptera; a blister-like enlargement at the middle of the anterior margin of the pro-thorax.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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 Rev. C. A. Johns
An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.
From Cromwell by Alfred B. Richards
Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like, metal-studded mass of leathery substance.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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