extensile

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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

The only other North American birds that have a tongue built upon this plan are the hummingbirds, in which also it is extensile.

From The Woodpeckers by Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy

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

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