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

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

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

In fact we may expect a form reduced to an axis, a few ramenta, a frondose dilatation, and one punctum of reproductive organs.

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

I can see nothing peculiar in the situation of the scales or ramenta to suggest the reason of the situation of the capsules.

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

In several cases, each pinna appears to have scales only which become barren lobes? the scales and ramenta have the same imbricate situation. 

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

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