extensile

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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

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)

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

From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.

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.

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