Etymology
Origin of amentaceous
Example Sentences
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Instances of this kind may be met with in willows, hazels, alders, and other amentaceous plants.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Nature's first flowers are those of the amentaceous trees, and the earliest of these are the pussy willow, the quaking asp, and the hazel.
From Some Winter Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John
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