Associations to the word «Protractile»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

PROTRACTILE, adjective. That can be protracted (as a cat's claws)

Dictionary definition

PROTRACTILE, adjective. Able to be extended; "protractile muscle".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope