ramentum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin ramentum (“a scraping”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛntəm === Noun === ramentum (plural ramenta) (botany) One of the thin brownish chaffy scales found on the epidermis of the leaves or young shoots of some ferns ==== Derived terms ==== ramentaceous ==== Related terms ==== rament === References === “ramenta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology === From rādō (“to scrape, shave, scratch”) + -mentum. === Noun === rāmentum n (genitive rāmentī); second declension shavings, splinters, chips (especially in plural) ==== 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.