extensile

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An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.

From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.

When the puncture into the nut is completed one or more eggs are inserted by means of an extensile, thread-like tube, or ovipositor, of the same length as the snout.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920 by Northern Nut Growers Association

This, together with the long extensile tongue—which is flat shaped and square at the extremity—shows a peculiar design, answering to the habits of the animal.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

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.

It has an excessively long, slender muzzle, and a worm-like, extensile tongue.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas