Bearing or producing aments; describing plants that have catkins as their flowering structures.
From Latin 'amentum' (catkin) + '-ferous' (bearing, carrying), a botanical adjective indicating the presence of aments.
The suffix '-ferous' means bearing or carrying—the same root appears in 'odoriferous' (bearing smell) and 'vociferous' (carrying voice), creating a whole family of Latin adjectives.
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