extensile
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An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.
From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.
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
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
There are no teeth; and although the tongue is long and worm-like, it is not extensile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
