extensile

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It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a wormlike extensile tongue.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter

It lacks the long, extensile tongue which enables the other species to probe the winding galleries of wood-eating larvæ.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 by Various

Omitting these, there are among the larger species, seventeen which are brown, of which twelve are hairy, and two have extensile caudal filaments.

From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by Jordan, David Starr

It had a long extensile tongue, furnished with a glutinous mucous for securing its insect food.

From In the Wilds of Africa by Pearse, Alfred

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