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English
catkins catkins
Etymology
From Middle Dutch katteken ( “ catkin ” , literally “ little cat ” ) , equivalent to cat -kin German Kätzchen Dutch katje
Noun
catkin (plural catkins
( botany ) inflorescence , consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar .
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Translations
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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