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
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
It is, in reality, an ant-eater, with the body of a porcupine, having a long slender snout and an extensile tongue, just like that of other ant-eaters.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William
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)