amentiform

English

amentiform (comparative more amentiform, superlative most amentiform)

(botany) Shaped like a catkin.
- 1835, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Outlines of Botany, page 396:
  The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes.
- 1854, Arthur Adams, A Manual of Natural History for the Use of Travellers, page 513:
  Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12;
(psychiatry) Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.
- 1956, Arthur M. Sackler, The Great Physiodynamic Therapies in Psychiatry, page 87:
  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.
- 1974, Confinia Psychiatrica - Volumes 17-19, page 119:
  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 .

shaped like a catkin