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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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The brownish fins were rigid as metal, the retractile claws unsheathed and cruelly curved.
This risk especially concerns patients with a poor quality of skin, but retractile fibroses are always possible.
The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion.
Most species have sharp, curved claws, often retractile between some of the lamellae or into a special sheath.
Genets are elongate short-legged animals with long tapering tails, pointed noses, large rounded ears, and retractile claws.
If a testis is not palpable, it is important to determine if it is retractile, ectopic, or cryptorchid.

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