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‖ amentum Bot.|əmɛntəm| Pl. -a. [L. amentum a thong or strap. Cf. ament1.] A catkin.
1770Milne Bot. Dict. A iij, Scales forming an amentum or catkin. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. iv. 77 Their [cedars'] fruit consists of an amentum, the pericarps of which..are imbricated woody scales. |