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Sheathed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Sheathed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Put in a sheath; inclosed or covered in a case; covered; lined; invested with a membrane.

Sheathed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.

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

Sheathed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913