inwander

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ wander.

Verb

inwander (third-person singular simple present inwanders, present participle inwandering, simple past and past participle inwandered)

1. (intransitive, nonstandard, nonce word) To wander in.
   • 1900, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:

     Around edge note nuclei seem intent on leaving second row to inwander; […]

   • 1971, Giuseppe Reverberi, Experimental embryology of marine and fresh-water invertebrates:

     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, […]

   • 1990, Seminars in developmental biology:

     It has a basal actin cortex (arrows). The mesenchymal cell is inwandering and has no free surface.

Derived terms

• inwandered
• inwanderer
• inwandering

Anagrams

• wanderin'