ramentum
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ramenta
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a scraping, shaving, or particle.
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Botany. one of the thin, chafflike scales covering the shoots or leaves of certain ferns.
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Origin of ramentum
1655–65; < Latin rāmentum a shaving, shred < *rādmentum, equivalent to rād ( ere ) to scrape + -mentum -ment
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The peculiar ramenta are to be looked for along the insertion of each pinna, and along the rachis, in which all have the peculiar structure.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
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
The scaly hairs, or ramenta, which clothe every part of the plant, are also like those of Ferns.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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
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