Definitionadj. capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out
Last update: September 27, 2015
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12), a west Australian creature of the size of a mouse, which may be regarded as representing by itself a sub-family (Tarsipediinae), characterized by the rudimentary teeth, the long and extensile tongue, and absence of a caecum. [Please select]
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Unlike the Indian's spear-point, the woodpecker's tongue is barbed heavily on both sides, and it is extensile. [Please select]
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The only other North American birds that have a tongue built upon this plan are the hummingbirds, in which also it is extensile. [Please select]
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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. [Please select]
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Most of the caterpillars have oval, slug-shaped, smooth bodies, with the under surface flattened, and very small heads, which in many species can be extended by means of an extensile neck. [Please select]
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The object of this extensile head is seen when one finds the larvae feeding upon the fruits or the seed-pods of its various food plants--hawthorn, hop, hound's-tongue, and St.' [Please select]
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Three thousand of them, for a single meal, he has been known to lick out of a hill with his long, round, extensile, sticky tongue. [Please select]
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This genus has four molars less than the last, a shorter muzzle; the cheek-bones or zygomatic arch more projecting; tongue rather longer and more tapering, and slightly extensile. [Please select]
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The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles. [Please select]
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