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Definition of Nonprotractile
1. Adjective. Not extensile.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonprotractile
Literary usage of Nonprotractile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... JORDAN & BRA YTON This is the most peculiar genus of suckers and may be known
readily by the nonprotractile upper lip and the split lower lip. ..."
2. Investigations of the Aquatic Resources and Fisheries of Porto Rico by United States Bureau of Fisheries, Barton Warren Evermann, Millard Caleb Marsh, William A. Wilcox (1900)
"... jaws elongate, the lower considerably projecting; upper jaw nonprotractile,
its border formed by ..."
3. The Fishes of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1898)
"... with that of the forehead, the upper jaw being therefore nonprotractile; angle
of mouth under front of pupil, ils distance from tip of snout 2? in head. ..."
4. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1905)
"... scaly above Süd on sides; mouth horizontal, large; jaws elongate, the lower
considerably projecting: upper jaw nonprotractile, its border formed by the ..."
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