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
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
Three thousand of them, for a single meal, he has been known to lick out of a hill with his long, round, extensile, sticky tongue.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan
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
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 Robert Armitage Sterndale
