laments

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Fertile flowers in scaly aments becoming cones or berry-like.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Preparation.—The fresh aments are macerated in twice their weight of alcohol.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

Nik ikhusi artzaiñetan zü zira ederrena: Eder izateko aments Agot izan behar da?

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

Hybrids with n. 6 have equally broad and large but duller green leaves, softly tomentose beneath and with shorter petioles, the aments equally thick but usually recurved, and the capsules on shorter pedicels.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Leaves broader, often 1´ wide, glaucous and veined beneath; stipules large, round-reniform; aments long, loosely flowered; capsules globose-conical, long-pedicelled.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa