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cat·kin (kăt'kĭn)  |
[From obsolete Dutch katteken, kitten, diminutive of katte, cat (from its resemblance to a kitten's tail), from Germanic *kattuz.]
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A dense spike of small, petalless, often unisexual flowers, most often found on wind-pollinated trees or shrubs.
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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 are found in many plant families, including Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Moraceae, and Salicaceae. For some time, they were believed to be a key synapomorphy among the proposed Hamamelididae, but it is now believed that this flower arrangement has arisen independently by convergent evolution on a number of occasions.Catkins usually appear on a tree between september and early spring.
In many of these plants only the male flowers form catkins, and the female flowers are single (hazel, oak), a cone (alder) or other types (mulberry). In other plants (such as poplar) both male and female flowers are borne in catkins.
Catkin-bearing plants include many other trees or shrubs such as birch, willow, hickory, sweet chestnut and sweetfern (Comptonia), and also some herbaceous plants such as nettle.
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| Translations: Catkin |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - rakle, gæsling
Français (French)
n. - (Bot) chaton
Deutsch (German)
n. - (bot.) Kätzchen
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (φυτολ.) ανθήλη, ίουλος
Italiano (Italian)
amento (bot.)
Português (Portuguese)
n. - amento (m)
Español (Spanish)
n. - candelilla, amento
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hänge (bot.)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
柔荑花
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 柔荑花
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) زهرة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - שיבולת של פרחים חד-מיניים, עגיל (תפרחת)
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