evaginate

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verb

To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.

“an evaginate membrane”

OriginLatin ēvāgīnātus →
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Meanings

evaginate1

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

present singular third person evaginates · participle present evaginating · participle past evaginated · past evaginated

  1. intransitiveTo evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
  2. transitiveTo cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.

evaginate2

adjectiveevaginate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableProtruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.

    an evaginate membrane

Origin

evaginate · verb

  1. Latinēvāgīnātus
  2. Englishevaginate

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

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evaginate · adjective

  1. Latinēvāgīnātus
  2. Englishevaginate

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

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