How To Use retractile In A Sentence
- The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion.
- In Australia, for example, marsupial herbivores the size of a rhinoceros, kangaroos nearly 10 feet tall, and carnivorous lion-like forms with shearing teeth and retractile claws all roamed the landscape.
- Like scaphopods, bivalves have a retractile foot which they use to burrow.
- cats have retractile claws
- The habit of felids to use primarily their forelimbs to capture prey is supported by the anatomy and function of their retractile claws.
- The last four segments, of decreasing breadth, are retractile beneath the carapax, as is also the broad plume that terminates them, and which is formed of three short, transparent, and elegantly ciliated bristles. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- Legs are short and sturdy, with five toes on each foot, and claws that are strong, curved and semi-retractile.
- The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion.
- Spores may be demonstrated by phase-contrast microscopy of wet mounts, where they appear mature and retractile.
- The morphology of the middle and distal phalanx in Tapocyon exhibits a retractile claw condition, supporting this as the primitive condition for Carnivora / Carnivoramorpha.
