Definition of Eversible

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eversible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eversible

everlastingness
everlastings
everlearning
everlive
everliving
everloving
everlovings
evermore
evermoving
everness
evernic
evernitrose
everolimus
everrunning
evershifting
eversible (current term)
eversion
eversions
eversive
everso
evert
everted
everthang
everting
evertor
evertors
everts
everwhat
everwhere
everwhich

Literary usage of Eversible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Entomology: Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1898)
"eversible glands of caddis-worms and caterpillars. ... In Plir>/</<mea grandis each thoracic sternum affords an exit to an eversible gland. ..."

2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"That is to say, the hinder part of the proboscis is not eversible: it lies within ... This non-eversible portion has glandular 'walls and contains a fluid. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1892)
"Glandular papillae of the eversible region. gl. z. Zone of glandular cells. h. " Handle" in which the central stylet is fixed. pd Poison duct, leading up to ..."

4. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The surface of the eversible region is often covered with adhesive glandular papillae; its epithelium sometimes contains nematocysts as in ..."

5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1899)
"This observer, however, confused these eversible structures with the honey-gland on ... Similar eversible glands are described by Hagen as occurring in the ..."

6. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"An eversible buccal region leads into a muscular pharynx, which in the majority is armed with ... The buccal region may be eversible, but there are no jaws. ..."

7. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1893)
"... represents the spiracle and lateral eversible gland of the full-fed larva ; g, the eversible gland ; »p, spiracle ; g', an eversible gland, enlarged. ..."

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