sheathed

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SHE'ATHED, participle passive 1. Put in a sheath; inclosed or covered in a case; covered; lined; invested with a membrane. 2. adjective 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.
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