Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sheathing; vaginal: as, a vaginant leaf (a leaf investing the stem by a tubular base).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving to invest, or sheathe; sheathing.
  • adjective (Bot.) a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Serving as a sheathe.

Etymologies

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Compare French vaginant. See vagina.

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