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catkins

catkins

From Middle Dutch katteken (“catkin”, literally “little cat”). So named due to the resemblance of lengthier kinds to a kitten's tail, or, perhaps more probably, the fine fur found on some catkins (compare the pictures). Cognate with German Kätzchen, modern Dutch katje; compare French chaton (“kitten”; “catkin”). By surface analysis, cat +‎ -kin.

catkin (plural catkins)

1. (botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.

• ament

• amentum

• raceme

• spike

• catkinlike

botany: a type of inflorescence

• Albanian: gath

• Basque: gerba

• Breton: bisig (br) m

• Bulgarian: реса (bg) f (resa)

• Catalan: ament

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 柔荑花序 (zh) (róutíhuāxù)

• Czech: jehněda (cs) f

• Danish: rakle (da) c, gæsling (da) c

• Dutch: katje (nl) n

• Esperanto: amento

• Estonian: urb

• Finnish: norkko (fi), pajunkissa (fi), urpu (fi)

• French: chaton (fr), iule (fr)

• Galician: amento m, candea (gl) f

• German: Kätzchen (de) n

• Greek: ανθήλη (el) f (anthíli), ίουλος (el) m (íoulos)

• Hungarian: barka (hu)

• Icelandic: rekill (is) m

• Ingrian: urpa

• Irish: caitín m

• Italian: gattino (it) m, amento (it) m

• Itelmen: ӈә’лӈә’л

• Japanese: 尾状花序 (bijō-kajo)

• Korean: 버들강아지 (beodeulgang'aji)

• Latin: iulus m

• Macedonian: реса f (resa)

• Māori: huahae

• Mari:
  Eastern Mari: йолва (jolva), алга (alga)
  Western Mari: ялава (jalava)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: rakle m, (willow) gåsunge m
  Nynorsk: rakle m, (willow) gåsunge m

• Polish: kotka (pl) f, bazia (pl) f

• Portuguese: amento (pt) m, amentilho m

• Romanian: ament (ro) m, mâțișor (ro) m

• Russian: серёжка (ru) f (serjóžka)

• Scottish Gaelic: clòimh-chat m, cluigean m

• Slovene: mačica f

• Spanish: amento (es) m

• Swedish: hänge (sv) n

• Tagalog: laylaybulak

• Tuvan: анай-хаак (anay-xaak) (willow), мочурга (moçurga) (poplar)

• Udmurt: гуры (gury)

• Ukrainian: сережка f (serežka), котик m (kotyk), богсьок m (bohsʹok) (Bukovina)

• Volapük: maänt

• antick, natick