INVAGINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invaginate mean? 

• INVAGINATE (verb)
  The verb INVAGINATE has 2 senses:

1. sheathe

2. fold inwards

  Familiarity information: INVAGINATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVAGINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they invaginate    ... he / she / it invaginates   
Past simple: invaginated   
Past participle: invaginated   
-ing form: invaginating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sheathe

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The chrysalis is invaginated

Hypernyms (to "invaginate" is one way to...):

sheathe (cover with a protective sheathing)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

invagination (the condition of being folded inward or sheathed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fold inwards

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

introvert; invaginate

Context example:

some organs can invaginate

Hypernyms (to "invaginate" is one way to...):

draw in; retract (pull inward or towards a center)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invaginate"):

intussuscept (introvert or invaginate)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

invagination (the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface)

 Context examples 

An invaginated portion of the cerebral cortex forming the base of the sylvian fissure.

(Central Lobe, NCI Thesaurus)

A mucosal tumor of the urinary bladder or nasal cavity in which proliferating epithelium is invaginated beneath the surface and is more smoothly rounded than in other papillomas.

(Inverted papilloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A proprietary RNA interference construct consisting of bifunctional short hairpin RNAs (shRNA) against human stathmin 1 (STMN1) encapsulated in the cationic bilamellar invaginated vesicle lipoplex (LP) with potential antineoplastic activity. pbi-shRNA STMN1 LP contains 2 stem-loop structures encoded by a plasmid vector.

(pbi-shRNA STMN1 Lipoplex, NCI Thesaurus)

Including many peripheral or integral membrane-associated enzymes and transport proteins, Mitochondrial Membrane Proteins are found associated with the smooth outer coat or the highly invaginated inner membrane (cristae) of the semiautonomous, self-reproducing cytoplasmic organelles that constitute the principal site of oxidative phosphorylation (ATP formation) for cellular energy in eukaryotic cells.

(Mitochondrial Membrane Protein, NCI Thesaurus)