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.

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