Evaginate

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside. intransitive
  2. 2
    To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out. transitive
Adjective
  1. 1
    Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated. not-comparable

    "an evaginate membrane"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ēvāgīnātus, perfect passive participle of ēvāgīnō (“to unsheath”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin ēvāgīnātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Alternatively, back-formation from evagination.

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