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Definition of Aments
1. ament [n] - See also: ament
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aments
Literary usage of Aments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminology by Maurice Parmelee (1918)
"CHAPTER XI CRIMINAL aments Characteristic traits of criminal aments — The ...
IN recent years much study has been devoted to the aments, or the feebleminded ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"Trees or shrubs with alternate petioled simple leaves, caducous Staminale aments
pendulous, the flowers in clusters of 3 in the axil of each bract, ..."
3. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1922)
"CHAPTER XVII VICIOUS AND CRIMINAL aments WHILST many ... While all these aments
agree in the fact that their conduct is at fault, the actual psychological ..."
4. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"Yellow В. A forest tree 40—80f, known at sight by its silver-yellow bark ; leaves
ovate, deeply and doubly serrate ; s aments 2—4', drooping, ..."
5. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"A tree up to 25 m. high; leaf-blades 3-11 cm. long, irregularly or doubly serrate,
glabrous and dark green above, pubescent beneath; staminale aments 5-10 ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"17. apex, cylindrical: Ivs. very silky beneath, sometimes becoming less so at
maturity: aments densely fld., appearing with the Ivs.; stamens often ..."
7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"Arctic or alpine shrubs; aments unfolding with the leaves. Fruiting aments i' or
less long. ... Leaves oblong or obovate, narrowed at the base; aments ..."
8. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... glabrous throughout, dark green and shining above, glaucous beneath, the young
drying black; stipules large, ear-shaped, dentate ; aments dense, ..."
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