extensile
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It had a long extensile tongue, furnished with a glutinous mucous for securing its insect food.
From In the Wilds of Africa by Alfred Pearse
The mouth is small and tubular, furnished with a long extensile tongue.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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
The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
The strong claws make a hole in the side of the ant-hill, and the insects are collected on the extensile tongue.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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