English Explanatory Dictionary

evaginate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
  2. To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.
adj
  1. Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.

Word forms

evaginate evaginates evaginating evaginated

Etymology

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

Related words

evagination vagina vaginate
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