Noun: ament
| Singular | ament |
| Plural | aments |
Sample Sentences
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[T]he scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters. [1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:]
Nouns inflected like ament
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin āmentum (“thong, string”). See: Latin Nouns '
āmentum'.