extensile

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The only other North American birds that have a tongue built upon this plan are the hummingbirds, in which also it is extensile.

From The Woodpeckers by Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy

Most of the caterpillars have oval, slug-shaped, smooth bodies, with the under surface flattened, and very small heads, which in many species can be extended by means of an extensile neck.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.

The arteries are highly elastic, being extensile and retractile both in length and breadth.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like, metal-studded mass of leathery substance.

From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

There are no teeth; and although the tongue is long and worm-like, it is not extensile.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various