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Webster 1913 Edition

Vaginula

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Va-gin′u-la

,

Noun.

[L., dim. of

vagina

sheath.]

(Bot.)

(a)

A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

(b)

One of the tubular florets in composite flowers.

Henslow.