extensile
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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 Weed, Clarence M.
Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like metal-studded mass of leathery substance.
From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
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 Sterndale, Robert Armitage
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 Blanchan, Neltje
Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like, metal-studded mass of leathery substance.
From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
