How To Use Catkin In A Sentence
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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.
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They are long green and orange catkins, while the female flowers are small and green.
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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
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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
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This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters.
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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
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In winter months a huge number of long, slender catkins hang from its branches.
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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.
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Long green catkins are appearing on the yellow twigs, with small green leaves on either side.
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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
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Live oaks produce male flowers called catkins that bloom in hanging clusters.
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Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
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The purple osier is already set with green points from which are to emerge fluffy catkins, and the sallow is preparing its gold and silver blossoms which are to be the early palm, dripping with honey and humming with insects.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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A. Pussy willows 'buds form the previous fall and open during February and early March to reveal their delightful petal-less, fuzzy silver "catkin" flowers.
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The long, graceful catkins are drooping from the birches, and the more slender clusters are also in flower on the oaks.
Rural Hours
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Let the catkins flower first, if you like.
Times, Sunday Times
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Already the hazel catkins are releasing pollen in the wind and you can virtually see the daffodils and rhubarb growing.
The Sun
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Female catkins are less showy.
Winter Garden Glory
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Only male plants produce the silvery pendant catkins this plant is known for, and the variety ‘James Roof’ is king of the swingers.
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Live oaks produce male flowers called catkins that bloom in hanging clusters.
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Catten or catkin is the term I like for the felines at that age.
Blog Find of 2009 « Barefoot in the Kitchen
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The catkins are long, dangling green strings.
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Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
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The catkins are bright yellow in spring and stand out against the dark stems.
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The first catkins could appear in early December.
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The catkins are bright yellow in spring and stand out against the dark stems.
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not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins
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I love all the lore about the tree: that carrying a double hazelnut in your pocket prevents toothache; that hazel twigs used for divining should be cut on Midsummer's Eve; that hazel twigs entwined in a horse's harness would keep it from being enchanted by the fairies; and that the tree's catkins (or lambs 'tails) were positioned around the kitchen fireplace at lambing time to help with the births.
A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones
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With the birch catkins all gone by February, they come down and feed on the early dandelion clocks.
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The first hazel catkins are now filling with yellow pollen and swinging in the wind.
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The catkins are bright yellow in spring and stand out against the dark stems.
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As I paused to peer down at the boat, I saw two huge goldfish surface from the slow green water then dive creating ripples that lapped the banks where straggly willows stooped heavy with catkins.
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Enjoy the silvery catkins in full sun or dappled shade.
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Saint Fiacre IN HORTO after the papal blessing the happy pair were subjected to a playful crossfire of hazelnuts, beechmast, bayleaves, catkins of willow, ivytod, hollyberries, mistletoe sprigs and quicken shoots.
Ulysses
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Despite the grey heavens and bitter northerlies there is something decorative, even festive about the way the catkins tremble in the alder trees on Ducan's Marsh.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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The correct spelling of "catkin," defined as a cluster of willow tree blossoms, produced a gasp from the audience.
Undefined
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The plants themselves were growing beautifully, but most of the staminate blossoms or catkins were frozen, and, consequently, very little pollenizing was accomplished, and very little fruit the result.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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A few tentative catkins are appearing on the willow and there are several flowers already open on the Japanese quince.
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Don't you see the catkins swimming in the air?
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The pollen needed to turn these flowers into pecan nuts comes from the male flowers or ‘catkins,’ 5-to 6-inch pendulous spikes growing laterally on year-old wood.
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But how far they go depends a great deal on the warmth of the winter and the abundance or otherwise of birch catkins.
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Female catkins are less showy.
Winter Garden Glory
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The water or sap was dropping fast from the branch, at the rate of sixteen large drops per minute, each drop twice or thrice the size of a "minim," and neither catkins nor leaves had yet expanded.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
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Sterile catkins mostly in threes, 3-4 inches long: fertile catkins 1-1-1/2 inches long, cylindrical, slender-peduncled, erect or spreading; bracts puberulent.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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Cut those stems right back the following March, just before bud burst and preferably after the willow catkins have finished.
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= -- In terminal catkins made conspicuous by the pale green, much enlarged, and leaf-like 3-lobed bracts, each bract subtending a dark-colored, sessile, striate nutlet.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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In the swamps and ditches of England there grows a plant called the horse-tail (equisetum), having a succulent, erect, jointed stem, with slender leaves, and a scaly catkin at the top.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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They also eat fruits, berries, twigs, leaves, catkins, and seeds.
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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
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This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters.
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The Comptonia or sweet-fern is in flower, the brown, catkin-like blossoms are nearly as fragrant as the foliage; it is the only fern we have with woody branches.
Rural Hours
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The catkins are bright yellow in spring and stand out against the dark stems.
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= -- Fruiting catkins erect or spreading, cylindrical, about 1-1/4 inches long and 1/2 inch in diameter, stalked; scales 3-parted above the center, side lobes larger, at right angles or reflexed: nuts small, ovate to obovate, narrower than the wings, combined wings from broadly obcordate to butterfly-shape, wider than long.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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The old grass and the sprouting needles of new grass greened, the buds on the guelder-rose, the buds and the sticky, spirituous birches swelled, and on the willow, all sprinkled with golden catkins, the flitting, newly-hatched bee buzzed.
Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
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The first catkins could appear in early December.
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Pin oaks produce drooping wind-pollinated male flowers called catkins; the female flowers come in groups of one to three just as the leaves begin to unfold.
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With the birch catkins all gone by February, they come down and feed on the early dandelion clocks.
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Enjoy the silvery catkins in full sun or dappled shade.
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The twisted stems of this hazel are elegantly weeping and their corkscrew curls are adorned in spring with long, golden catkins.
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The first hazel catkins are beginning to turn yellow and swing loose on the twigs.
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It is one of the first shrubs to blossom, the staminate flowers hanging in slender, graceful yellowish-brown catkins, while the pistillate flowers are little points of purplish-red protruding from the buds.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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In winter, they are most readily observed feeding in trees with catkins, such as birch and alder.
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She smoked cheap cigars, and the ash lay on her cardigans like catkins.
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Golden catkins appear at the same time.
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The crack willow catkins are a paler yellow and more silky.
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The butternut is the first to shed pollen in Indiana with the catkins dropping, in some years, by late April and the first week in
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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Sourwood decks itself with pendulous seedpods, and hazelnut displays dangling catkins in early spring.
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This has yellow catkins followed by false cones.
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The first catkins could appear in early December.
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One particular plant of the zellernut type grown in one of my city lots during the last season was very well filled with pistillate blossoms and not one catkin on it, and still it ripened a fairly good crop of perfect nuts, where the nearest plants filled with staminate blossoms was at least 30 feet from it.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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The first hazel catkins are beginning to turn yellow and swing loose on the twigs.
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If the catkins remain dormant when the pistillate flowers bloom, they have been winterkilled, and the bent down reserves have to be called up.
Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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The bride and Katie carried beautiful preserved flowers from Catkins.
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The first catkins could appear in early December.
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Sterile catkins 3-4 inches long, slender, purplish-yellow; scales fringed: fertile catkins erect or suberect, sessile or nearly so, 1/2-1 inch long, oblong-cylindrical; bracts pubescent; lateral lobes wider than in _B. lutea.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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Catkins are swinging on many hazel, or cobnut, trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've now got in my bunky-hole (it is not quite six feet square) a polypod fern, a plate of moss, a pot of white hyacinths, and also catkins, violets, and mimosa!
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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The catkins are bright yellow in spring and stand out against the dark stems.
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As soon as a majority of the catkins began to shed their pollen or to absciss their full developed anthers, the catkins were removed and dried on a sheet of smooth paper at room temperature until the pollen was shed.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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At closer quarters, one can see that there are also little green catkins hanging from the twigs.
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The first catkins could appear in early December.
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The first hazel catkins are beginning to turn yellow and swing loose on the twigs.
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Whoever has had an opportunity to see and admire a well fruited hazel plant, at the time of maturity, will agree with me that it is a thing of beauty, not only during the fruit bearing season, but in fact throughout the whole winter, with the handsome staminate flowers or catkins appearing very abundantly in early fall, and remaining throughout the winter, until late spring.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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Nature notes Long yellow catkins are swinging on the hazel twigs.
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Already the hazel catkins are releasing pollen in the wind and you can virtually see the daffodils and rhubarb growing.
The Sun
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The catkins are crimson and green, and hang from the thin brown twigs.
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The catkins are crimson and green, and hang from the thin brown twigs.
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Long green catkins are appearing on the yellow twigs, with small green leaves on either side.
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Emasculation and bagging was done at the beginning of anthesis, that is, when the first unisexual male catkins began to shed pollen.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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Long green catkins are appearing on the yellow twigs, with small green leaves on either side.
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Countless 4cm catkins appear with the leaves and are held upright.
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The birds were singing and the hazel catkins were open.
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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
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The hazel trees have also lost most of their foliage, but on these there are now new catkins.
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At the same time as the new leaves, dangling golden catkins appear, looking very bright against the dark foliage.
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Each female catkin has a separate peduncle, charged with reddish, scarious, lanceolate scales, and is surrounded at its base with a double row of the same scales, which served to envelop it before it expanded; its form is perfectly oval, and its total length about half an inch.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
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The catkins are bright yellow in spring and stand out against the dark stems.
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The leathery foliage is bright green and the catkins silvery grey.
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The male flower, called a catkin, looks like a full-blown erection.
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