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Vaginant :: Vaginant (a.) Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing..

Whittle :: Whittle (n.) A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife..

Neurokeratin :: Neurokeratin (n.) A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin..

Case Knife :: Case knife () A knife carried in a sheath or case.

Sheathe :: Sheathe (v. t.) To case or cover with something which protects, as thin boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with copper..

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

Slip :: Slip (n.) The slip or sheath of a sword, and the like..

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

Involucrum :: Involucrum (n.) A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

Sheathless :: Sheathless (a.) Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

Coleorhiza :: Coleorhiza (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle..

#NAME? :: Subvaginal (a.) Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve..

Sheath :: Sheath (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses..

Vaginati :: Vaginati (n. pl.) A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.

Ochreated :: Ochreated (a.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass..

Quiver :: Quiver (n.) A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

Ochrea :: Ochrea (n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.

Sheathing :: Sheathing (n.) That which sheathes.

Bandala :: Bandala (n.) A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

Sheathy :: Sheathy (a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case.

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