extensile

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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

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

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

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

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 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