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Saccate :: Saccate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted..

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke..

Unspeak :: Unspeak (v. t.) To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay..

Retractile :: Retractile (a.) Capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata.

Retractation :: Retractation (n.) The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

Opelet :: Opelet (n.) A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia, / Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles..

Pluroderes :: Pluroderes (n. pl.) A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example..

Retracting :: Retracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrac.

Recantation :: Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.

Revel :: Revel (v. t.) To draw back; to retract.

Retractive :: Retractive (n.) That which retracts, or withdraws..

Unpredict :: Unpredict (v. i.) To retract or falsify a previous prediction.

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation..

Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation..

Palinodial :: Palinodial (a.) Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction..

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body..

Retractible :: Retractible (a.) Retractable.

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