retractile
Example Sentences
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The cat's claws are of course retractile, as I have just described to you.
From The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two by Sarath Kumar Ghosh
The arteries are highly elastic, being extensile and retractile both in length and breadth.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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 Stéphane Leduc
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 Henry J. Slack
The fore-feet have five toes, the hind-feet four or five; the claws are strong, blunt, and formed for digging, and are not retractile.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
