Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Forming or enclosed in a sheath.
- adjective Resembling a sheath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sheathe; invaginate.
- Sheathed; invaginated; furnished with or contained in a vagina; vaginated.
- Forming or formed into a sheath; vaginal, as a leaf.
- noun A vaginate or sheathed polyp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Invested with, or as if with, a sheath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
vaginated
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Polygoneae is certainly to be acknowledged, but they are similar to those of Costus, and hence not stipulae, but an extension of the margin of the vaginate petiole, from which veins are prolonged into it; the functions of these are not stomatose, since they are membranous, the veins being the only green parts.
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