Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (a body part) to turn inside out by eversion of an inner surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pushed out or everted; turned inside out.
- To unsheathe; withdraw from a sheath: opposed to invaginate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination{2}; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.
- verb To become evaginate; to cause to be evaginate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
evert a body organ inside surface to outside. - verb transitive To cause a body organ or part to become inside-out.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin ēvāgīnāre, ēvāgīnāt-, to unsheath : ē-, ex-, ex- + vāgīna, sheath.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin evaginare, to unsheath; ex-,from +vagina, sheath
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