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Definition of Amentum
1. n. Same as Ament.
Definition of Amentum
1. Noun. catkin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amentum
1. a catkin [n AMENTA] - See also: catkin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amentum
Literary usage of Amentum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"[The amentum* of the Orinoco Tribe."] cord attached to them, like a harpoon, and
THE Orinoco tribes use arrows with a cord is soon entangled in the bushes. ..."
2. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1790)
"... fan-amentum. At the dav record ready, ot tria'» the grand jury appeared, and
the record or the exchequer |K>t the ш{Д ..."
3. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"trivial name of an inflorescence resembling a cat's tail, as of the willow, birch,
poplar, 4c. See amentum. ..."
4. Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature by Samuel Lytler Metcalfe (1843)
"... or temper amentum. (De Nat. Humana, 5, 6.) That the phlegm of Hippocrates was
not merely the secretion termed mucus, but included * In the Treatise De ..."
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