How To Use catkin In A Sentence
- Some varieties shed pollen from the male catkins before the female flowers are receptive, and so require pollen from another variety with a later pollen maturation date.
- They are long green and orange catkins, while the female flowers are small and green. Times, Sunday Times
- Tall, well over six foot, but a bendy, willowy uncertain tall, brown one-year sapling rather than slow growing sturdy branch, the tree metaphor extended by the catkins of his light brown dreadlocks, loose and shot with streaks of blondness denoting, she thought fancifully, the several summers he had lived through since he first grew them. Occasional sunshine
- Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap. Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
- This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters.
- Try as I might I cannot relocate it within its microworld and the more I handle its catkin inner sanctum the more it crumbles under my weight. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
- In winter months a huge number of long, slender catkins hang from its branches. Times, Sunday Times
- In the laboratory, he demonstrated that waxwings maintained body mass and a positive protein balance only when they fed on both Viburnum opulus fruit and the protein-rich catkins.
- Long green catkins are appearing on the yellow twigs, with small green leaves on either side. Times, Sunday Times
- Staminate flowers in long, drooping catkins, provided with three or more stamens and occasionally with an irregular-lobed perianth adnate to the bractlet and a rudimentary ovary. The Pecan and its Culture
