Look up: catkin

1. Catkin
   Usually petal-less flowers arranged in a spike.
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2. catkin
   [n] - a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
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3. Catkin
   Catkins are flowers specialised for wind pollination, found on some trees and shrubs. They are usually either male or female and can be either pendulous or erect. Although, they do not have colourful petals the male flowers are often bright yellow from the numerous anthers.
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4. Catkin
   A pendulous or erect flower spike made up of bracts, each of which contains a single sex, stalkless flower
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5. Catkin
   A drooping spike of small flowers characteristic of some deciduous trees. Male catkins produce pollen; female catkins are pollinated and then develop into fruiting catkins which bear seeds. A spike-like flower cluster that bears scaly bracts and petal-less, unisexual flowers.
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6. catkin
   the aments or flowers that can be either male or female, which emerge throughout January and offer the earliest insects one of the first harvests of the year Category: Botany and zoology
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7. Catkin
   Cat'kin noun [ Cat + - kin .] (Botany) 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 che...
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8. catkin
   <plant biology> A spike in which the flowers are unisexual and without conspicuous perianth. ... (16 Mar 1998) ...
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9. catkin
   ament noun a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
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10. Catkin
    • (n.) 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. of Ament.
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11. catkin
    (from the article `inflorescence`) A catkin (or ament) is a spike in which the flowers are either male (staminate) or female (carpellate). It is usually pendulous, and the perianth may ... ...of a spike is the cattail (Typha; Typhales). The fleshy spike characteristic of the Araceae (Philodendron; Arales) is called a spadix, and the ......
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12. Catkin
    Compact usually pendulous spike of unisexual flowers, as in birches, willows, poplars, oaks, walnuts.
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13. CATKIN
    A dry, oblong pendulant flowering spike.
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14. Catkin
    In botany, a catkin is a dense spike of small male or female flowers, usually long and tassel-like.
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15. catkin
    In flowering plants (angiosperms), a pendulous inflorescence, bearing numerous small, usually unisexual flowers. The tiny flowers are stalkless and the petals and sepals are usually absent or much reduced in size. Many types of trees bear catkins, including willows, poplars, and birches. Most plants with catkins are wind-pollinated, so the male...
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16. Catkin
    A `catkin` or `ament` is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster, with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect pollinated (as in Salix). They contain many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged closely along a central stem which is often drooping. They...
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