catkin

English - Turkish

Definition of catkin in English Turkish dictionary

tırtıl

huş çiçeği

söğüt çiçeği

çiçek

soğüt ağacının çiçeği

{i} huş ağacı çiçeği

English - English

Definition of catkin in English English dictionary

A type of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar

{n} the calyx of certain plants like a thong

simple elongated, pendant, scaly spike, thread-like flower-cluster; found in oaks, hickories, willows, and poplars

An elongated flower cluster

spike or spike-like raceme of densely packed flowers or fruits

A drooping spike of small flowers characteristic of some deciduous trees Male catkins produce pollen; female catkins are pollinated and then develop into fruiting catkins which bear seeds A spike-like flower cluster that bears scaly bracts and petal-less, unisexual flowers

a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence

of Ament

so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail

A tassel-like pendulous inflorescence bearing many unisexual flowers Oak, Birch, Willow, and Poplar are catkin-bearing

A cluster of long male flowers without petals (typical of the oaks, hickories, walnuts, birches, and other trees) that hangs from a twig in spring and serves to pollinate the separate female flowers

A spikelike flower cluster that bears scaly bracts and petalless, unisexual flowers

A pendulous inflorescence of simple, usually unisexual flowers

a scaly, generally drooping, spike-like inflorescence

A scaly-bracted spike of unisexual flowers

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

a thick spike of small male or female flowers without petals

A catkin is a long, thin, soft flower that hangs on some trees, for example birch trees and hazel trees. a long soft flower that hangs in groups from the branches of trees such as the willow (Early katteken ; because it looks like a cat's tail). Elongated cluster of single-sex flowers bearing scaly bracts and usually lacking petals. Many trees bear catkins, including willows, birches, and oaks. Wind carries pollen from male to female catkins or from male catkins to female flowers that take a different form (e.g., in spikes)

{i} long cylindrical cluster of small flowers without petals (found in willows, birches, and oaks, also called ament)

a flowering spike found in many woody plants; a cluster of flowers without petals, usually unisexual (either male or female, not both)

amentum

Related Terms

catkins

plural of catkin

Hyphenation

cat·kin