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"cats have retractile claws"adjectivecapable of retraction; capable of being drawn back
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- cheetah long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game
- canine any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
- feline any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
- canid any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
- spiny-headed worm any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines
- felid any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
- tentaculata ctenophores have retractile tentacles
- class tentaculata ctenophores have retractile tentacles
- vorticella any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk
- genus vorticella ciliated protozoans that have a goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk