invaginate

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Gent with motile 'jaculate was mown down, now invaginate,

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To enclose or become enclosed in or as if in a sheath.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb To turn or become turned inward.
  3. transitive and intransitive verb To infold or become infolded so as to form a hollow space within a previously solid structure, as in the formation of a gastrula from a blastula.

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  1. Medieval Latin invāgīnāre, invāgīnāt- : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin vāgīna, sheath.

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  1. from Latin in, in, + vagina, a sheath: see vagina.
 

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