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Meanings of catkin in English
Slim, cylindrical flower cluster with inconspicuous or no petals.
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Examples for "ament"
Examples for "ament"
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.
Usage of catkin in English
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.
6
In the fourth group are those with less than 20 per cent of catkin injury.
7
Winter killing of the wood has not been as extensive nor as serious as catkin killing.
8
Not a single live catkin was found in the spring on the 66 filbert varieties in this orchard.
9
Weather conditions influenced catkin killing greatly.
10
I am off with the little wool-gatherers, to see what thorn and brier and fern-stalk and willow-catkin will give me.
11
The Taylor every year sets a bunch of young nutlets, but I have never yet seen a catkin on it.
12
In a normally cold winter catkin killing as a rule is not very serious, except on a few tender varieties.
13
One chinchilla catkin gone!
14
I have seen good ones made of peanuts, with the features inked on, and a very young black birch catkin for tail.
15
The subtle, pungent, ravishing odours on the wind, of unfolding leaves, ice-water washed plants, and catkin pollen, were an elixir to humanity.
16
In winter the light could be seen on the other side; now catkin, bud, and opening leaf have thickened and check the view.
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Russian
Spanish
Catkin through the time