English
Etymology
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. By surface analysis, cat + -kin.
Pronunciation
Noun
catkin (plural catkins)
- (botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.
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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)
- Maori: 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
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