How To Use Extensile In A Sentence
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When the puncture into the nut is completed one or more eggs are inserted by means of an extensile, thread-like tube, or ovipositor, of the same length as the snout.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920
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_An extensile landscape, with a road on the L; overhung with foliage.
Cromwell
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The bladder also is of the nature of membrane, but of membrane peculiar in kind, for it is extensile.
The History of Animals
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The adult Pangolin has ho teeth, in consequence it cannot bite or eat hard food, and it has a long extensile tongue which can be protruded for a considerable distance through its small tube-like mouth.
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The whole tongue has a considerable extensile power.
The Malay Archipelago
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an extensile tongue
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It is time to go," Worsel announced, curling out one extensile eye toward the vanishing orb.
Galactic Patrol
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The talus stopped and rolled backward, one of its extensile arms reaching for Incus.
Calde of the Long Sun
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He has got, moreover, as "tall" a tail as the tamanoir, very nearly as long a snout, a mouth equally small, and a tongue as extensive and extensile.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
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The Mylodon, moreover, was furnished with a long extensile tongue like that of the giraffe, which, by one of those beautiful provisions of nature, thus reaches with the aid of its long neck its leafy food.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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The woodpecker, which has a similar extensile mechanism for exserting its tongue to a great length, also uses it to procure its food -- in its case soft grubs from holes in rotten trees -- and to enable it to pull these out, the end of the tongue is sharp and horny, and barbed with short stiff recurved bristles.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua