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What does retractile mean?

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Adjective
  1. That can be retracted (as a cat's claws)
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Using the retractile method has had the unanticipated benefit of allowing school classes to stand on the bridge and ride it as it slides open.
Like scaphopods, bivalves have a retractile foot which they use to burrow.
Spores may be demonstrated by phase-contrast microscopy of wet mounts, where they appear mature and retractile.
This risk especially concerns patients with a poor quality of skin, but retractile fibroses are always possible.
Genets are elongate short-legged animals with long tapering tails, pointed noses, large rounded ears, and retractile claws.
The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion.

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