Slim, cylindrical flower cluster with inconspicuous or no petals.
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Examples for "catkin "
Examples for "catkin "
1 The latter variety is catkin hardy and should be in every planting.
2 On the day after her arrival, she essayed to worry the haughty catkin .
3 Look at that painted butterfly swinging on the honey-laden catkin there.
4 Hardiness of catkin also varied greatly and rather consistently from year to year.
5 Wood injury, catkin injury, and pistil injury will be treated separately.
1 He also mentions alternative labels: talented imbecile, parament, talented ament , retarded savant, schizophrenic savant, autistic savant.
2 A silly tyrant said, 'oderint modo timeant'; a wise man would have said, 'modo ament nihil timendum est mihi'.
3 The tree is so called from the resemblance of the long ament , before opening, to the beads of a necklace.
4 But the flowers of this species are only small greenish aments .
5 Ament gave him a daily task, after which he was free.
1 Two years later Miss Benson gave an account of a similar phenomenon in certain Amentiferae (Trans.
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