CONTRACTILE ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contractile organ mean? 

• CONTRACTILE ORGAN (noun)
  The noun CONTRACTILE ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. a bodily organ that contracts

  Familiarity information: CONTRACTILE ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRACTILE ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bodily organ that contracts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

contractile organ; contractor

Hypernyms ("contractile organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contractile organ"):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)