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▪ I. vaginate, a. rare.
[ad. mod.L. vāgīnāt-us, f. as prec.: cf. next and vaginated ppl. a.]
Enclosed in a sheath or vagina; invaginate.
1849Craig, Vaginate, Vaginated, in Botany, sheathed, invested by the tubular base of the leaf, as a stem. 1856W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 190 Penis vaginate simple, with a small posterior accessory part. Ibid. 300 Mouth..composed of a rostellum, retractile, vaginate at the base. 1859Mayne Expos. Lex. 1320 Vaginatus, cased, sheathed, vaginate.
▪ II. † vaginate, v. Obs.—0
[f. L. vāgīna: cf. prec.]
To sheathe (Blount Glossogr. 1656).
Phillips (1658) substitutes ‘Vagination, a sheathing’. |