extensile

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The object of this extensile head is seen when one finds the larvae feeding upon the fruits or the seed-pods of its various food plants—hawthorn, hop, hound's-tongue, and St. John's-wort.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.

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

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)

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 Blanchan, Neltje