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Retractile

adjective
1.
Capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back.






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"Retractile" Quotes from Famous Books



... When we reflect on the numbers of these fish, the largest and most voracious of which are only four or five inches long, on the triangular form of their sharp and cutting teeth, and on the amplitude of their retractile mouths, we need not be surprised at the fear which the caribe excites in the inhabitants of the banks of the Apure and the Orinoco. In places where the river was very limpid, where not a fish appeared, we threw into the water little morsels of raw flesh, and in a few minutes a perfect cloud ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt



Words linked to "Retractile" :   retractable, nonretractile



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