Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dense, cylindrical, often drooping cluster of unisexual apetalous flowers found especially in willows, birches, and oaks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a scaly spike of unisexual flowers, usually deciduous after flowering or fruiting, as in the willow and birch; an ament. Also called
cattail .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See
Illust. ofament .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A type of
inflorescence , consisting of a slenderaxis with manyunisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in thewillow andpoplar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Catten or catkin is the term I like for the felines at that age.
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The male flower, called a catkin, looks like a full-blown erection.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The male flower, called a catkin, looks like a full-blown erection.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The male flower, called a catkin, looks like a full-blown erection.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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A. Pussy willows 'buds form the previous fall and open during February and early March to reveal their delightful petal-less, fuzzy silver "catkin" flowers.
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A. Pussy willows 'buds form the previous fall and open during February and early March to reveal their delightful petal-less, fuzzy silver "catkin" flowers.
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The correct spelling of "catkin," defined as a cluster of willow tree blossoms, produced a gasp from the audience.
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A. Pussy willows 'buds form the previous fall and open during February and early March to reveal their delightful petal-less, fuzzy silver "catkin" flowers.
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A. Pussy willows 'buds form the previous fall and open during February and early March to reveal their delightful petal-less, fuzzy silver "catkin" flowers.
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A. Pussy willows 'buds form the previous fall and open during February and early March to reveal their delightful petal-less, fuzzy silver "catkin" flowers.
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