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What is a catkin?

What is a catkin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.
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In Betula the bracts of the catkins are deciduous, and the mature catkin shatters to release the winged fruit.
Peridon and catkin, and Mr. Pempton took their usual places.
Ash, beech, acorn, conker and catkin have all been chopped.
Scales of the fertile catkin ovate, 2-flowered, coriaceous, persistent.
Wood injury, catkin injury, and pistil injury will be treated separately.
Trees in the partially protected orchard fared somewhat better in regard to catkin injury than those in the more exposed orchard.

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