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evaginate

evaginate verb: to evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
  2. (transitive) To cause (a bodily organ or part) to turn inside out.

Adjective

evaginate (not comparable)

  1. Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated.
    • an evaginate membrane

evaginate meaning in Tamil

evaginate in Tamil

அகம் புறமாக மாறுதல்

Forms of evaginate

third-person singular presentevaginates
present participleevaginating
past participleevaginated
pastevaginated

Origin of evaginate

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

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

Questions about evaginate

What does evaginate mean?
Evaginate means to evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside.
What is evaginate in Tamil?
Evaginate in Tamil is அகம் புறமாக மாறுதல். See Evaginate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is evaginate?
Evaginate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of evaginate?
The past tense of evaginate is evaginated.

Words near evaginate in the dictionary

  1. Evadne
  2. evagate
  3. evagation
  4. evagations
  5. evaginable
  6. evaginate
  7. evaginated
  8. evaginates
  9. evaginating
  10. evagination
  11. evaginations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evaginate (page history and authors); evaginate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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