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CATKIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does catkin mean?
• CATKIN (noun)
The noun CATKIN has 1 sense:
1. a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
Familiarity information: CATKIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
ament; catkin
Hypernyms ("catkin" is a kind of...):
inflorescence (the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk)
Context examples
It is very pleasant to see the first green shoots upon the hedges and the catkins on the hazels once again.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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