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Webster 1913 Edition
Ament
Am′ent
,Noun.
[L.
amentum
thong or strap.] (Bot.)
A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
The globular
ament
of a buttonwood. Coues.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ament
AM'ENT
,Noun.
A botany, a species of inflorescence, from a common, chaffy receptacle; or consisting of many scales, ranged along a stalk or slender axis, which is the common receptacle; as in birch, oak, chestnut.