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- verb Present participle of
exsert .
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Examples
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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 Thomas Belt 1855
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When two species are attempted to be crossed which are so distantly allied that offspring are never produced, it has been observed in some cases that the pollen commences its proper action by exserting its tube, and the germen commences swelling, though soon afterwards it decays.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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