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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contractile \Con*tract"ile\, a. [Cf. F. contractile.] tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. --H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance. --Hixley. {Contractile vacuole} (Zo["o]l.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one two or more From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contractile adj : capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
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