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Willow or hazel flower spike
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catkin
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Word definitions for catkin in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Hazel catkins Witches' broom Bluebells are indicators of ancient woodland. ▪ She smoked cheap cigars, and the ash lay on her cardigans like catkins.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) A type of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Dutch katteken "flowering stem of willow, birch, hazel, etc.," literally "kitten," diminutive of katte "cat" (see cat (n.)). So called for their soft, furry appearance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catkin \Cat"kin\ (k[a^]t"k[i^]n), n. [Cat + -kin.] (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, ...
Usage examples of catkin.
There was always something to be picked at different times of the year, cowslips not butter cups or daisies, they were too common catkins, wood anemones, ferns, bluebells and may, beautiful scented white may.
Our yellow goslings in spring, as they shoot from their silver rabbit-tail catkins, and our palms on Palm Sunday, though it is unlucky to bring one home earlier.
I looked at an alder, laden with brown catkins, its blunt foliage stained with innumerable shades of lovely colour.
Tookhees the wood mouse was there, running over the bush, evidently for the black catkins which still clung to the tips.
Look at that painted butterfly swinging on the honey-laden catkin there.
The Cormyns, the Yatts, and Priscilla Graves, and Pempton, foolish fellow, and that bothering Barmby, and Peridon and Catkin, were the lineing of his nest.
On leaving the church of Saint Fiacre in Horto after the papal blessing the happy pair were subjected to a playful crossfire of hazelnuts, beechmast, bayleaves, catkins of willow, ivytod, hollyberries, mistletoe sprigs and quicken shoots.
I to-day, unwed, as free of thought as yonder bird chasing the catkin down.
It's all right in the country--primroses and catkins and the first daffodils and lambs.
Sunlight glinted in her curls, which were fair as catkin pollen, the same delicate shade as her mother's had been.
Horsey, horsey catkins,'' snarled Hoskins desperately searching for a pseudonym that would deceive anyone listening in on the switchboard.
The usual Quartet: Peridon, Pempton, Colney, Yatt, or Catkin: Priscilla Graves and Nataly--the Rev.
Peridon and Catkin pertained to their genial picture of the dear sweet nest in life.
Barmby, Peridon and Catkin named other dishes, there was the right after-dinner ring in Victor's ears, thanks to the woman of the world who had travelled round to nature and led the shackled men to deliver themselves heartily.
We have no amateur conductor riding ahead: violins, 'cellos, piano, wind-stops: Peridon, Catkin, Pempton, Yatt, Cormyn, Colney, Mrs.