Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, an ament; a catkin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
catkin orament ; theflower cluster of thehazel ,pine ,willow , etc.
Etymologies
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Latin nucamenta fir cones, from nux, nucis, a nut.
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