Amentaceous: alternatives and connections

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin.

Same as Ament.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.

Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.

a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence

A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distendin…

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and…

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the wi…

Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.

Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.

A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the in…

flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approxim…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, soli…

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.