Word Meanings - AMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.

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• AMENTIA
  Imbecility; total want of understanding.
• AMENTIFORM
  Shaped like a catkin.
• GLOBULARLY
  Spherically.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• AMENTACEOUS
  Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence. Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.
• CATKIN
  An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See
• GLOBULARNESS
  Sphericity; globosity.
• GLOBULAR
  Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection , a perspective
• GLOBULARITY
  The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.
• INFLORESCENCE
  begin to blossom; pref. in- in + florescere to begin to blossom: 1. A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms. The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each
• AMENTUM
  See AMENT
• BUTTONWOOD
  The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.
• AMENT
  A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.
• AMENTIFEROUS
  Bearing catkins. Balfour.
• UNSACRAMENT
  To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• NUCAMENTACEOUS
  Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits.
• TRISACRAMENTARIAN
  One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• PALUDAMENTUM
  Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.
• DELINEAMENT
  Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.
• ELIQUAMENT
  A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• NIDAMENTAL
  of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.
• SACRAMENTALLY
  In a sacrament manner.
• SACRAMENTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.
• ARMAMENTARY
  An armory; a magazine or arsenal.
• ATRAMENTAL; ATRAMENTOUS
  Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
• PREDICAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall .
• APPROPRIAMENT
  What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.