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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHEATHED

pp. 1. Put in a sheath; inclosed or covered in a case; covered; lined; invested with a membrane.
2. a. In botany, vaginate; invested by a sheath or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SHEATHED

SHEATHED Sheathed, a.

1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

2. (Bot. )

Defn: Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.

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