noun Botany.
noun
- a person who has amentia.
noun
- another name for catkin Also called: amentum (əˈmɛntəm)
noun
- psychiatry a mentally deficient person
“person born an idiot,” 1894, from Latin amentia “madness,” from amentem “mad,” from a- “away from” + mentem “mind” (see mind (n.)).
n.
- A person whose intellectual capacity remains undeveloped.
- See catkin.