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2 definitions found 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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