evaginate

English

Etymology

From Latin evaginare (“to unsheath”), from ex (“from”) and vagina (“sheath”).

Verb

evaginate (third-person singular simple present evaginates, present participle evaginating, simple past and past participle evaginated)

1. (intransitive) To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
2. (transitive) To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.

Adjective

evaginate (not comparable)

1. Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.

   an evaginate membrane

Anagrams

• A negative, enavigate

Latin

Verb

ēvāgīnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvāgīnō