inwander

verb

inwander

verb

Etymology From in- + wander.

1

Nonce word, Nonstandard To wander in.

  • Around edge note nuclei seem intent on leaving second row to inwander; […]1900, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
  • The cells of the equatorial region, which normally inwander last, and which should in fact lie in the entoderm of the subsequent budding tip of the hydrocaulus, […]1971, Giuseppe Reverberi, Experimental embryology of marine and fresh-water invertebrates:
1 more example
  • It has a basal actin cortex (arrows). The mesenchymal cell is inwandering and has no free surface.1990, Seminars in developmental biology
Derived terms
inwandered, inwanderer, inwandering

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