retractile
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Numerous pedal tentacles around the mouth, which are retractile within sheaths.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
The phenomenon is a purely physical synthetic reproduction of the phenomenon of coagulation, the cohesion figure being in fact a retractile clot.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
The single prosthomere carries the retractile tentacles as its “parapodia.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
The bells or cups are not, as might be fancied from a casual inspection, open like wineglasses at the top, but furnished with a retractile disk or cover, on which the cilia are arranged.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.
Most species have sharp, curved claws, often retractile between some of the lamellae or into a special sheath.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
