SG Heritage Dictionary

Vagina [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

2. Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca.

3. The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca.

4. The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.

5. The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.

Vaginae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vaginal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to a sheath, or resembling a sheath; as a vaginal membrane.

Vaginal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

2. Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery.

Vaginant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, sheathing; as a vaginant leaf, one investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

Vaginant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vaginate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vaginated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, sheathed; invested by the tubular base of the leaf; as a stem.

Vaginated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.

Vaginati [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.