AMENT

AM'ENT, noun [Latin amentum, a thong, or strap.]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.

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Am″ent (�), n. [[L. amentum thong or strap.]] (Bot.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.