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Definition of: ramentum
(rə·men′təm) noun plural ·ta (-tə)
1. A part of something scraped off; a minute part.
2. Bot. A thin, membranous, chaffy scale, formed on the surface of leaves, the stems of ferns, etc.: an outgrowth from the epidermis. [<L, scraping <radere scrape]
—ram·en·ta·ceous (ram′ən·tā′shəs) adjective
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