evaginate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ēvāgīnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvāgīnō