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Definition of Amentaceous
1. Adjective. (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins.
Category relationships: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Similar to: Productive
Derivative terms: Ament
Definition of Amentaceous
1. a. Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.
Definition of Amentaceous
1. Adjective. (botany) Bearing, resembling, or consisting of an ament or aments. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Amentaceous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amentaceous
Literary usage of Amentaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... mostly persistent leaves, and monoecious or dioecious amentaceous flowers.
Calyx and corolla none. Ovules orthotropous. Fruit a cone or drupe, ..."
2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... flowers amentaceous: seeds solitary, erect; embryo without albumen: cotyledons
plano-convex: radicle short, superior Aromatic, astringent, stomachic. ..."
3. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"Leaves alternate, simple, stipulate. Flowers dioecious, amentaceous, and destitute
of floral envelopes, or with a membraneous cup like calyx. ..."
4. Trees, Shrubs and Vines of the Northeastern United States by Howard Elmore Parkhurst (1903)
"... the latter, as having the most elaborate type of blossom, we will consider first.
In the non-amentaceous group, the flower, ..."
5. Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering by Richard Deakin (1857)
"... females aggregate, or amentaceous. Male flowers. Stamens five to twenty,
inserted into the base of the scales, or of a membranous perianth, ..."
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