ramentum
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛntəm
Noun
ramentum (plural ramenta)
- (botany) One of the thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
Derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ramentum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
Noun
rāmentum n (genitive rāmentī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “ramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ramentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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