extensile

How to use extensile in a sentence

• It has an excessively long, slender muzzle, and a warm-like extensile tongue.

  The Desert World | Arthur Mangin

• It is really astonishing to see what large morsels they can dispose of with the assistance of their extensile mouths and stomachs.

  The Sea Shore | William S. Furneaux

• The only other North American birds that have a tongue built upon this plan are the hummingbirds, in which also it is extensile.

  The Woodpeckers | Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

• They are, however, quite extensile, and can readily be made to hold three or four times this amount.

  Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 56, March 1900 | Various

• All leeches are very extensile and can contract the body to a plump, pear-shaped form, or extend it to a long and worm-like shape.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 3 | Various