extensile
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Three thousand of them, for a single meal, he has been known to lick out of a hill with his long, round, extensile, sticky tongue.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan
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
It is, in reality, an ant-eater, with the body of a porcupine, having a long slender snout and an extensile tongue, just like that of other ant-eaters.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey
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 Robert Armitage Sterndale
It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a wormlike extensile tongue.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
