Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being everted, or turned inside out. Also
evertile .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to be turned
inside out ; able to beeverted
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Examples
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The male organs consists of two testes which connect to sperm ducts that unite and lead to an eversible copulatory cirrus.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Nemertines however, lack a protective cuticle or exoskeleton as well as stalked eyes, but have a characteristic eversible proboscis.
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Osmaterium - ia: fleshy, tubular, eversible processes producing a penetrating odor, capable of being projected through a slit in the prothoracic segment of certain Papilionid caterpillars, and from openings elsewhere in the bodies of other forms.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Red in, well, harpoon-like proboscis and, uh ... eversible stomach.
Pharyngula 2009
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In case you don't know, caecilians have sensory tentacles, sometimes have protrusible eyes, sometimes lack eyes entirely, often exhibit sophisticated parental care [maternal skin-feeding is going on in the middle image above], are incredibly long-bodied yet often lack tails, sometimes possess large, anatomically complex, eversible male sexual organs, and so on and so forth.
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In case you don't know, caecilians have sensory tentacles, sometimes have protrusible eyes, sometimes lack eyes entirely, often exhibit sophisticated parental care [maternal skin-feeding is going on in the middle image above], are incredibly long-bodied yet often lack tails, sometimes possess large, anatomically complex, eversible male sexual organs, and so on and so forth.
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