ramentum

From Latin ramentum (“a scraping”).

• Rhymes: -ɛntəm

ramentum (plural ramenta)

1. (botany) One of the thin brownish chaffy scales found on the epidermis of the leaves or young shoots of some ferns

• ramentaceous

• rament

• “ramenta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From rādō (“to scrape, shave, scratch”) +‎ -mentum.

rāmentum n (genitive rāmentī); second declension

1. shavings, splinters, chips (especially in plural)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “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.