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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A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
1. Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.
2. Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.
Imbecility; total want of understanding.
Amentifer
Encyclopedia Britannica
AMENTIFERAe, or Amen-taceae. Under this name arc included apetalous unisexual plants bearing their flowers in catkins (amenta). This group of plants includes trees and shrubs chiefly of temperate climates. It is divided into the following orders :— Salicaceae, willows and poplars; Corylaceoe or Cupuliferae, hazel, oak, beech, chestnut, hornbeam, Ac.; Betulaceae, birch, alder; Casuarinaceae, Casuarina (beefwood); Altingiaceoe or Balsamifluoe, liquid-ambar; Platanaceoe, the plane; Juglandaceoe, walnut; Garruaccoe Garrya; Myricaceae, bog myrtle.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 668
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Bearing catkins.
Shaped like a catkin.
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