Retractile Definition

rĭ-trăktĭl, -tīl
adjective
That can be retracted, or drawn back or in.
Webster's New World
Of retraction.
Retractile power.
Webster's New World

That can be retracted (as a cat's claws)

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Retractile Sentence Examples

  • Often not retractile.

  • The single prosthomere carries the retractile tentacles as its "parapodia."

  • In one genus (Polypocephalus) the place of a rostellum is taken by a crown of retractile tentacles.

  • Another form, Rhopalophorus, has two cephalic tentacles that are retractile and covered with hooks.

  • They may be defined as aquatic animals, forming colonies by budding; with ciliated retractile tentacles and a U-shaped alimentary canal.

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