Usage examples (5)

• Instances of this kind may be met with in willows, hazels, alders, and other amentaceous plants.
• Befide the grana kermes, I obferved on the cofcoja many large red excrefcences; and of thcfe, two fpecies are diftinguifhed, the one formed on the leaf, the other on the ftems...
• The singular habit of the witch-hazel, whose blossoms open as the leaves fall, may be presumed to be familiar to all readers; and hardly less curious is the freak of the...
• - catkin. amentaceous, adj. like or composed of catkins. amentiferous, adj. bearing catkins. amentiform, adj. catkin-shaped.