vaginant

English

Etymology

Compare French vaginant. See vagina.

Adjective

vaginant (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Serving as a sheathe.
    A vaginant leaf is one investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vaginant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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