retractile

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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.

There is also in some genera a median retractile sensory papilla on the dorsal posterior surface above the rectum, not covered by the cuticle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

The members of the Cat Tribe have retractile claws.

From The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two by Ghosh, Sarath Kumar

The genital and anal somites are not retractile within the last leg-bearing somite, and the gonopods typically persist in the male as small two-jointed appendages and in the female as jointed or unjointed sclerites.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

Herpestes, her-pes′tez, n. the typical genus of ichneumons or mongooses of the sub-family Herpestin�, viverroid carnivores, having straight toes, claws not retractile.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various