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 David Starr Jordan
It has an excessively long, slender muzzle, and a worm-like, extensile tongue.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
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 Clarence M. Weed
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 John. B. Smith
An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.
From Cromwell by Alfred B. Richards
