extensile

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An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.

From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.

This, together with the long extensile tongue—which is flat shaped and square at the extremity—shows a peculiar design, answering to the habits of the animal.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

Bill shorter than the head, straight, conical; tongue long and extensile; nostrils without bristles, partly closed by a membrane; wings with the second primary somewhat the longest; tail-feathers soft and flexible.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

Ampulla: Orthoptera; an extensile sac between head and prothorax used by the young in escaping from oötheca, and later, in molting: Heteroptera; a blister-like enlargement at the middle of the anterior margin of the pro-thorax.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

The mouth is small and tubular, furnished with a long extensile tongue.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg