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sheathed

participle passive
Put in a sheath; inclosed or covered in a case; covered; lined; invested with a membrane. 2.a. 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.