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  *鞘* | 鞘* | *鞘
scabbard; sheath
scabbard
(botany) leaf sheath
Coleoptera (insect order including beetles)
(anatomy) tendon sheath
Ascidiacea / sea squirt
elytrum (hardened forewing of Coleoptera beetle, encasing the flight wing)
myelin sheath (membrane surrounding axon of nerve cell)
coleoptile, protective sheath covering an emerging shoot (botany)
(of a sword etc) to unsheath
tenosynovitis (medicine)
sphingolipid
(invertebrate zoology) ootheca


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