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evaginable

  • a word derived from evaginate.
    evaginate
    verb (used with object)
    to turn inside out, or cause to protrude by eversion, as a tubular organ.

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No branchia of any kind; a short evaginable pharynx, bearing paired conical buccal appendages or “cephalocones.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

No buccal appendages or suckers; a very long evaginable proboscis; a quadriradiate terminal branchia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various