retractile

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The creature itself stands upon a retractile foot-stalk, and thrusts out above its battlements a large head, with four leaf-like expansions surrounded by cilia.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.

The jaws were widely extended, so that the sharp retractile teeth were plainly visible, and the forked tongue at intervals was shot forward, and gleamed in the sun.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

Feet subplantigrade, with five well-developed toes on each, carrying sharp, compressed, retractile claws.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

That this may be more perfectly accomplished, these arms are studded along their inner surface with rows of sucking discs, in each of which, by means of a retractile piston, a vacuum can be produced.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)

The genital and anal somites are not retractile within the last leg-bearing somite, and the gonopods typically persist in the male as small two-jointed appendages and in the female as jointed or unjointed sclerites.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various