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nouna cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
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- scale a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- poplar any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
- sallow any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
- scale leaf a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- hamamelidae a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder
- broussonetia papyrifera shrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries
- catkinate resembling a catkin
- pussy willow small willow of eastern North America having greyish leaves and silky catkins that come before the leaves
- salicaceae two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus
- group amentiferae used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins