Catkin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: catkincatkinate
of pertaining to or resembling a catkin...
Catkin
An ament a species of inflorescence consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides as in the willow and poplar and as to the staminate flowers in the chestnut oak hickory etc so called from its resemblance to a cats tail See Illust of Ament...
cattail
A tall erect rush or flag Typha latifolia growing widely in fresh and salt marshes with long flat sword shaped leaves having clusters of small brown flowers in a dense cylindrical spike at the top of the stem called also bulrush and reed mace The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs making mats etc See Catkin...
Hamamelidae
a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms they have a perianth poorly developed or lacking and flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated The group contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae includes the Amentiferae sometimes it is classified as a superorder...
Juliform
Having the shape or appearance of a julus or catkin...
VerbarJulus
A catkin or ament See Ament...
Nucament
A catkin or ament the flower cluster of the hazel pine willow and the like...
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