ramentum

American  

[ruh-men-tuhm] / rəˈmɛn təm /

noun

• ramenta
  plural

1. a scraping, shaving, or particle.

2. Botany. one of the thin, chafflike scales covering the shoots or leaves of certain ferns.

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ramentum British  

/ rəˈmɛntəm /

noun

1. any of the thin brown scales that cover the stems and leaves of young ferns

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• ramentaceous
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• ramenta
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of ramentum

1655–65; < Latin rāmentum a shaving, shred < *rādmentum, equivalent to rād ( ere ) to scrape + -mentum -ment

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Example Sentences

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ramenta

In truth, the two conditions merge one into the other, as in some begonias, where the ramenta often become leaf-like and bear small bulbils in the axil.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters

Are they barren from mere deficiency in supplies, such as may result from many circumstances; or are the antheriform ramenta deficient? 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith

In this the ramenta are confined, or nearly so, to the under surface of the fronds. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith

It is curious that the colour of the scales is the same as that of the ramenta, in which the colour is developed from above downwards, a peculiarity as it appears to me.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith

There can be no doubt of the propriety of including the nature of these ramenta and scales in its generic character.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith

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