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Coleopterous :: Coleopterous (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

Spathed :: Spathed (a.) Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.

Emboss :: Emboss (v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

Beak :: Beak (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds..

Sheath-winged :: Sheath-winged (a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle..

Obtundent :: Obtundent (n.) A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent..

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

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

Ligule :: Ligule (n.) The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.

Endorhizous :: Endorhizous (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants..

Exorhiza :: Exorhiza (n.) A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

Missheathed :: Missheathed (a.) Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.

Intussuscepted :: Intussuscepted (a.) Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated..

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

Vagina :: Vagina (n.) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein..

Dissheathe :: Dissheathe (v. i.) To become unsheathed.

Tenosynovitis :: Tenosynovitis (n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

Sheathing :: Sheathing (p. pr. & a.) Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

Cephalostyle :: Cephalostyle (n.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

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