evaginate

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evaginate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Evaginate \E*vag"i*nate\, a. [L. evaginatus, p. p., unsheathed.
     See Evagination.]
     Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination[2]; turned inside
     out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  Evaginate \E*vag"i*nate\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Evaginated;
     p. pr. & vb. n. Evaginating.]
     To become evaginate; to cause to be evaginate.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]