extensile
Example Sentences
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An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.
From Cromwell by Alfred B. Richards
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
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
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
Held immovable by the beam it lay upon the floor, a strangely extensile, amoeba-like, metal-studded mass of leathery substance.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
