Vaginula

Quick meaning: Vaginula is a noun meaning (botany) A little sheath, such as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

Meaning

(botany) A little sheath, such as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

Example Sentences

In Sphagnum it is shaped somewhat like a button , having a very narrow neck, which is firmly embraced by the vaginula.

The plant is distinctive in the reddish brown tomentum, the longly hairy vaginula and the erect or spreading peristome teeth (normally corticolous species have reflexed teeth and normally saxicolous species a ± glabrous vaginula).

Word Forms

• vaginulas
• vaginulae

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vaginule, veil, bursicle, ligule, vulva, squamula.

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