ament
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Etymology
Origin of ament1
1785–95; < New Latin, Latin āmentum strap, thong
Origin of ament2
1890–95; < Latin āment- (stem of āmēns out of one's mind, mad), equivalent to ā- a- 4 + ment-; see mental 1
Example Sentences
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But in dozens of interviews, current and former colleagues of Mr. Acosta, who is now dean of Florida International University’s law school, are deeply split in their ament of the nominee.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2017
The tree is so called from the resemblance of the long ament, before opening, to the beads of a necklace.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church
Scales of the fertile ament few, decussately opposite or ternate, becoming a small closed cone or sort of drupe.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The close contact between neighbors and the familiarity of community life tend in the country to develop an indifference to the variations from normal standard that the high-grade ament expresses.
From Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves
Fertile flowers in a short ament or head, 2 to each bract, and each with one or more bractlets which form a foliaceous involucre to the nut.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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