noun
- The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface.
- usage: "the invagination of the blastula"
- synonyms: invagination, introversion, infolding
- Biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall. (.
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