extensile
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of extensile
First recorded in 1735–45; extens(ion) + -ile
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It is, in reality, an ant-eater, with the body of a porcupine, having a long slender snout and an extensile tongue, just like that of other ant-eaters.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey
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
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
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
Tongue long, pointed and extensile, though to a less degree than in the anteaters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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