Ament

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A usually dense, cylindrical, often drooping cluster of unisexual apetalous flowers found in willows, birches, and oaks. Also called ament1.
  • n. A person with severely deficient intellectual capacity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A catkin or amentum
  • n. A congenital idiot
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a kind of inflorescence consisting of unisexual apetalous flowers growing in the axils of scales or bracts ranged along a stalk or axis; a catkin. The true ament or catkin is articulated with the branch and is deciduous; it is well seen in the inflorescence of the birch, willow, and poplar, and in the staminate inflorescence of the oak, walnut, and hazel. Also written amentum.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
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    catkin   
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