extensile
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The only other North American birds that have a tongue built upon this plan are the hummingbirds, in which also it is extensile.
From The Woodpeckers by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
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
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
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 had a long extensile tongue, furnished with a glutinous mucous for securing its insect food.
From In the Wilds of Africa by Alfred Pearse
