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The invagination above the diaphragm, consisting of both endocyst and ectocyst, is then everted.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

The whole limb is usually everted to a greater or less degree, and is slightly abducted.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

It is a powerful muscular organ, of great size in proportion to the animal, capable of complete retraction within the carapace, and of being everted wholly, or partially, at will.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.

By next morning every larva was fixed to the glass and had everted its two polypides.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

The colour is generally black-and-tan or brownish, the body is extremely long and cylindrical; the ears are large and pendulous, the legs broad, thick and twisted, with everted paws.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various