extensile
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C�sium, sēz′i-um, n. a silver-white, soft, and extensile alkaline metal, almost always found along with rubidium, discovered by Bunsen and Kirchhoff in 1860 by spectrum analysis.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a wormlike extensile tongue.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter
This genus has four molars less than the last, a shorter muzzle; the cheek-bones or zygomatic arch more projecting; tongue rather longer and more tapering, and slightly extensile.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
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
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