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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See catkin.
  2. n. A person with severely deficient intellectual capacity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In botany, a kind of inflorescence consisting of unisexual apetalous flowers growing in the axils of scales or bracts ranged along a stalk or axis; a catkin. The true ament or catkin is articulated with the branch and is deciduous; it is well seen in the inflorescence of the birch, willow, and poplar, and in the staminate inflorescence of the oak, walnut, and hazel. Also written amentum.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A catkin or amentum
  2. n. A congenital idiot

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A species of inflorescence; a catkin.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence

Etymologies

  1. Latin āmentum, strap.From Latin āmēns, āment-, insane : ā-, ab-, out of; see ab-1 + mēns, mind; see men-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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