extensile

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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)

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

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

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.

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.