"Sheath" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 tào to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ)
 tào zi sheath / case / cover / conventional method / cliché / trick / (coll.) condom
 qiào scabbard / sheath
 bǐ tào the cap of a pen, pencil or writing brush / the sheath of a pen (made of cloth, silk or thread)
 tuò sheath around joints of bamboo
 yùn suì (grain farming) booting (i.e. the swelling of the leaf sheath due to panicle growth)
 pēi yá qiào coleoptile, protective sheath covering an emerging shoot (botany)
 jiàn qiào tendon sheath (anatomy) / epitendon
 suǐ qiào myelin sheath (membrane surrounding axon of nerve cell)
 yè qiào (botany) leaf sheath
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