Amentaceous: Definition and part of speech

Amentaceous

  1. a. Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.
  2. a. Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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