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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Capable of being everted, or turned inside out. Also evertile.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. able to be turned inside out; able to be everted

Examples

  • “The male organs consists of two testes which connect to sperm ducts that unite and lead to an eversible copulatory cirrus.”

    Platyhelminthes

  • “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

  • “Red in, well, harpoon-like proboscis and, uh ... eversible stomach.”

    Pharyngula

  • “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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