Assertion: anteater's tongue | /r/HasProperty | sticky
Facets:
value: long
type: DEGREE
value: with saliva
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The anteater’s 16-inch (about 40 cm) tongue is sticky with saliva, and covered with tiny spines that can easily snag up a mouthful.
text: The tongue is sticky and has spikes, and anteaters can flick their tongues more than 150 times per minute to suck up bugs without getting bit or stung.
text: Instead they use their claws to tear open termite mounds and ants' nests and then use their long snout and sticky tongue to eat the insects.
text: An anteater has a long, narrow snout or nose and a long sticky tongue.
text: The tongue is too sticky that helps it to catch ants even in narrow holes.
text: Their long, serpentine tongue (10–12 inches) is sticky and can gather up ants and termites with great efficiency.
text: The tongue is sticky because of the presence of glycoprotein-rich mucus, which both lubricates movement in and out of the snout and helps to catch ants and termites, which adhere to it.
text: The tongue is long and sticky, and the forefeet are strong-clawed, for digging.
text: As such, contact between the anteater and the termites is very brief, but long enough for them to get stuck to its sticky tongue.
text: Their tongue is 2-foot long, thin and sticky.
text: Their tongue is 2-foot long, thin and sticky.