Amentaceous

Word AMENTACEOUS
Character 11
Hyphenation am en ta ceous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Amentaceous"

What do we mean by amentaceous?

Resembling or consisting of a catkin. adjective

Bearing catkins. adjective

In botany: Consisting of or resembling an ament: as, an amentaceous inflorescence. Bearing aments: as, amentaceous plants.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments. adjective

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments. adjective

Bearing, resembling, or consisting of an ament or aments. adjective

(of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins adjective

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The word "amentaceous" in example sentences

(_Humulus Lupulus_) not infrequently manifest this change, as do also the bracts of many amentaceous plants, _e. g._ in the male catkins of the walnut, the female catkins of the alder, [248] of some willows, [249] &c. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Instances of this kind may be met with in willows, hazels, alders, and other amentaceous plants. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The singular habit of the witch-hazel, whose blossoms open as the leaves fall, may be presumed to be familiar to all readers; and hardly less curious is the freak of the chestnut, which, almost if not quite alone among our amentaceous trees, does not put on its splendid coronation robes till late in June, and is frequently at the height of its magnificence in mid-July. ❋ Bradford Torrey (1877)

Befide the grana kermes, I obferved on the cofcoja many large red excrefcences; and of thcfe, two fpecies are diftinguifhed, the one formed on the leaf, the other on the ftems of the amentaceous flowers. ❋ Unknown (1791)

Nature's first flowers are those of the amentaceous trees, and the earliest of these are the pussy willow, the quaking asp, and the hazel. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

- catkin. amentaceous, adj. like or composed of catkins. amentiferous, adj. bearing catkins. amentiform, adj. catkin-shaped. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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