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Definition of Amentiferous
1. Adjective. (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins.
Category relationships: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Similar to: Productive
Derivative terms: Ament
Definition of Amentiferous
1. a. Bearing catkins.
Definition of Amentiferous
1. Adjective. (botany) Bearing catkins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amentiferous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Amentiferous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amentiferous
Literary usage of Amentiferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The amentiferous families, in accordance with their Upper Cretaceous deployment
and their undoubted primitive and not reduced character, are represented in ..."
2. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1871)
"Trees of those amentiferous orders to which the oak, the hazel, the beech, and
the plane belong, were perhaps not less abundant in the Eocene woods than in ..."
3. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"It is common upon amentiferous trees and shrubs, but popularly is doubtless best
known as the lilac or syringa mildew. Upon the lilac the mycelium covers ..."
4. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
""It was this act which called the Angiosperms into being." Arber does not regard
the Apetalous orders (Piperales, amentiferous families, ..."
5. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"The Cactacea; and the amentiferous genus Casuarina present perhaps the most
extreme cases of foliar reduction among the Angiosperms, and it is of interest ..."
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