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Definition of Ament
1. Noun. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
Definition of Ament
1. n. A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
Definition of Ament
1. Noun. A catkin or amentum ¹
2. Noun. A congenital idiot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ament
1. a mentally deficient person [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ament
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ament
Literary usage of Ament
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"ament globose. Staminate flowers—corol none or scarcely apparent, ... Staminate
flowers—ament conic surrounded with a 4-leaved involucre: corol 0: filaments ..."
2. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"ament globose. Staminate flowers : corolla none, or scarcely apparent ; anthers
growing around the filaments. Pistillate flowers : calyx many-leaved ; style ..."
3. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1837)
"Staminate flowers: ament loose; calyx sub 5-cleft; corolla 0; stamens 5 to 10.
... Staminate flowers: ament roundish; calyx 5 or 6-cleft, ..."
4. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1821)
"The scales of the calyx in fact appear to form an ament as in the genus Scirpus.
but instead of a naked or bristle bearing seed, they inclose a seed ..."
5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1878)
"This section attests the tendency which a Pantheistic religion always manifests
to develop into materialism, since the ament or Heavens invoked in it ..."
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