retractile
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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 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.
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
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
The members of the Cat Tribe have retractile claws.
From The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two by Ghosh, Sarath Kumar
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