Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rament , 1. - noun In botany, a thin, chaffy scale or outgrowth from the epidermis, sometimes appearing in great abundance on young shoots, and particularly well developed on the stalks of many ferns: same as
palea (which see for cut).
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- noun botany One of the thin brownish
chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon thepetioles and leaves offerns .
Etymologies
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Latin, a scraping.
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Examples
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No one can look at a young pinnula at this epoch and observe the evident capitation of each ramentum, the inflexion of its apex, so that the head is brought into contact with the frond, without suspecting that they have the same relation of _cause_ to the appearance subsequently of the thecae or capsules.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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