a. Bot. [ad. mod.L. vāgīnant-, vāgīnans, f. vāgīna sheath. So F. vaginant.] = SHEATHING ppl. a. b.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., III. vii. (1765), 191. Vaginant, forming a Vagina or Sheath; when the Base of the Leaf forms a cylindric Tube that invests the Branch.
1851. G. F. Richardson, Geol., vii. 203. Sessile leaves are sometimes vaginant, that is, sheathing, as in grasses.
