Aments

Word AMENTS
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Aments"

What do we mean by aments?

A catkin or amentum.

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The word "aments" in example sentences

South Africa's Constitution aments, the editors show how grounded in human rights is the ANC's "long-established tradition of freedom", the book's sleeve note says. ❋ Unknown (2005)

At the corner by the stile, beyond which the willows were splendid against the blue with silvery aments and golden pollen, they turned by mutual impulse and retraced their steps. ❋ Herbert George (2004)

The broad leaves, of a very rich green, grow on stems nearly as long as themselves, and the flowering aments are of a light-red color. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

'When Spring has closed her delicate flowers,' says a bright writer, 'and the multitudes that crowd around the footsteps of May have yielded their places to the brighter host of June, the willow scatters the golden aments that adorned it, and appears in the deeper garniture of its own green foliage.' ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

But the flowers of this species are only small greenish aments. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

The male flowers occur on 3 parted, slender, glandular-hairy aments from the basal portion of the current season's growth. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The aments are usually 3-4 inches long with individual flowers consisting of 4 stamens with their surrounding bract and calyx lobes. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

There are more male aments to be found on the lower branches than female spikes of flowers, which would tend to aid in cross pollination of the flowers by wind action. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Pistillate on small globose aments; calyx proper of the floweret, a coarse scale; corolla none; ovary conical; styles 2, flattened, divergent; stigmas acute. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

However, despite the fact that "Europeans are considering generating electricity with solar thermal technology in North Africa, importing it and connecting it to the grid," Africa itself cannot follow suit "because the CDM does not support technology," the university official aments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Recent Links also in Central Asia & Caucasus aments the state of the Azerbaijani alphabet and the various changes it has seen since the ❋ Unknown (2009)

The scales of the staminate aments when mature are broadly ovate, rounded, yellow or orange color below the middle, dark chestnut brown at apex. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The pistillate aments (catkins) are erect or pendulous, solitary; terminal on the two-leaved lateral spur-like branchlets of the year. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Beware of rafh judging thofe that have any line - aments of Chrift's image upon them. ❋ Unknown (1773)

Leaf-buds not scaly; leaves evergreen and persistent for several years, opposite, verticillate, or sometimes scattered, scale-like, often needle-shaped in seedlings and sometimes upon the branches of older plants; flowers minute; stamens and pistils in separate blossoms upon the same plant or upon different plants; stamens usually bearing 3-5 pollen-sacs on the underside; scales of fertile aments few, opposite or ternate; fruit small cones, or berries formed by coalescence of the fleshy cone-scales; otherwise as in _Abietaceæ_. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)

The aments, too, with their light silvery-green tint, glisten beautifully on the darker leaves. " ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

FLOWERS -- (a) _female_ -- occurring in 2 to several flowered spikes, with a one-celled ovary, about 1/4 to 1/3 inch long covered with tomentum; flowers rusty to yellowish green in color; stigma with two stigmatic lobes; bracts much longer than the lateral bractlets. (b) _male_ -- in three parted or branched aments, each flower usually containing 4 stamens with a 2 or a 3 lobed calyx; aments 3-4 "long with glandular hairs. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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