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AMMI

Volume 1 · 51 words · 1771 Edition

in botany, a genus of the pentandra digynia clas. The involucrum is pinnated; and the flowers are all hermaphrodite, with radiated petals. There are two species of the ammi, viz. the majus and glaucifolium, both natives of Europe.

AMMINIÆ uix, a name sometimes given to a species of vine. See VITIS.