[ad. L. AMENT-UM.]

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  † 1.  ‘A thong, or string.’ Cockeram, 1623. Obs.

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  2.  Bot. = AMENTUM.

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1791.  E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., II. 9. The scales in the ament in the Salix rosea, grow into leaves.

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1874.  Coues, Birds of N.-W., 208. A Thistle bird swinging under the globular ament of a button-wood.

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