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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Catkin \Cat"kin\, n. [Cat + -kin.] (Bot.)
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 cat's tail. See Illust. of {Ament}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
catkin
n : a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence [syn: {ament}]
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Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
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