extensile

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

From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.

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

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 Smith, John. B.

The first somite has become a prosthomere, and carries a pair of extensile antennae.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

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