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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.

Archive 2008-06-01 Michael Turton 2008

The whole tongue has a considerable extensile power.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

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 2003

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 2003

The bladder also is of the nature of membrane, but of membrane peculiar in kind, for it is extensile.

The History of Animals 2002

The talus stopped and rolled backward, one of its extensile arms reaching for Incus.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

The talus stopped and rolled backward, one of its extensile arms reaching for Incus.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

"It is time to go," Worsel announced, curling out one extensile eye toward the vanishing orb.

Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

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

Cromwell Alfred B. Richards

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