Amentiform
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Amentiform is an adjective meaning (botany) Shaped like a catkin.
Meaning
(botany) Shaped like a catkin.
More Meanings
- (psychiatry) Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.
Example Sentences
The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes.
Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12;
a. 100 oer cent in acute and subacute amentiform conditions; b. 81 per cent in acute and subacute stupor; C. 71 per cent in acute and subacute hebephrenia; d. 68 per cent in acute and subacute paranoid-hallucinatory conditions.
This would be in line with our findings that, in the French-Canadian multiparas (sometimes after the ninth or twelfth delivery), the amentiform - delirious syndromes and depressive episodes were relatively more often observed .
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include juliform, amentiferous, cotyliform, petaliform, stipitiform, disciform.
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