Bark of tree smooth; staminate aments in winter enclosed in bud scales; nut exposed, its subtending bract more or less irregularly 3-cleft 1 Carpinus.
Bark of trunks dark; fruiting aments erect or nearly so.
Bark of older trees shreddy; staminateaments in winter naked; nut enclosed in a bladder-like bract 2 Ostrya.
Balm of Gilead" was the name that inquiry brought for this tree, and the resinous and sweet-smelling buds which preceded the rather inconspicuous catkins or aments of bloom seemed to justify the Biblical designation.
The broad leaves, of a very rich green, grow on stems nearly as long as themselves, and the flowering aments are of a light-red color.
The aments are usually 3-4 inches long with individual flowers consisting of 4 stamens with their surrounding bract and calyx lobes.
The male flowers occur on 3 parted, slender, glandular-hairy amentsfrom the basal portion of the current season's growth.
The typical male ament is three branched but one and two branched aments have been observed.
There are more male aments to be found on the lower branches than female spikes of flowers, which would tend to aid in cross pollination of the flowers by wind action.
Fertile flowers in scaly aments becoming cones or berry-like.
Aments lateral or terminal, with or without bracts; scales persistent, colored at the tip; stamens 2 (usually 1 in n.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
