(n.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extracts with the broadest spectra of activity were prepared from: Alnus rubra bark and catkins, Fragaria chiloensis leaves, Moneses uniflora aerial parts, and Rhus glabra branches.
(2) Dot immunoblotting of crude extracts of various aerial parts of birch trees, using patient serum rich in birch pollen IgE, showed IgE-binding activity in leaves, buds, twigs, seeds, bark, and old male catkins.
(3) Ginger, pippali (native to India; also called dried catkins), pepper, and garlic showed the highest activity followed by asafetida, mustard, and horse-gram (native to India).
(4) The current 2012 edition maintained the changes, and instead of catkin, cauliflower, chestnut and clover, today’s edition of the dictionary, which is aimed at seven-year-olds starting Key Stage Two, features cut and paste, broadband and analogue.
(5) Hazel catkins were profuse, catching out hay fever sufferers late in the month.
(6) • Hazel catkins, which usually appear in March and April, appeared early in autumn at Washington Old Hall, Tyne and Wear, for the second year running • Mammals generally entered the winter in good condition, especially badgers, wild deer, and the wild sheep and goats in Cheddar Gorge.
(7) You can also lobby your local council to get trees planted that are bee-friendly, such as hazel and alder whose catkins provide a vital source of pollen in the spring, when the bees need this protein to feed to their young, expanding colony.
(8) Mica flecks in ancient granite shone like gold dust in caramel-coloured streams, beech trees were decorated with delicately suspended catkins and the upland breezes infused with coconut-like scent from early flowering gorse.
Gosling
Definition:
(n.) A young or unfledged goose.
(n.) A catkin on nut trees and pines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stanislas could have celebrated that reprieve by treating himself to another goal when United’s defence was bisected by a wonderful pass from Gosling.
(2) The eight-seventh passage was non-pathogenic for susceptible day-old goslings and produced active and adequate immunity in these young birds.
(3) In addition, vascular resistance of these vessels was found to be abnormally low, as reflected by the Gosling pulsatility index.
(4) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(5) On examining the blood and the organs, the virus was detected in a very low amount and for a very short time in blood and spleen of goslings and only in blood of ducklings.
(6) Neonates were correctly classified according to diagnosis by the Doppler measures as follows: Pourcelot's pulsatility index (100%), Gosling's pulsatility index (97%), diastolic amplitude (94%), mean amplitude (76%), area under the curve (70%), and systolic amplitude (58%).
(7) For a 10-day spell they interviewed everyone from Ryan Gosling to Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman to Roman Polanski.
(8) Police today interviewed at least one of Gosling's friends who knew him at the time of the killing.
(9) The drug caused a significant decrease in the plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels only in the goslings kept at thermoneutrality.
(10) Please note that Gosling does not actually appear in How to Catch a Monster.
(11) Tom Gosling, reward partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "There is a wider question of differences in regulatory approach at the global level creating an uneven playing field, and a risk of geographic arbitrage in favour of jurisdictions that are perceived to be more lenient."
(12) Goslings were more affected than chicks by the ingestion of a raw soya-bean diet (RSD) in the following ways: reduction in food intake and growth rate; increase in relative weight of the digestive organs; reduction in specific activities of lipase (EC3.1.1.3), amylase (EC3,2.1.1) and chymotrypsin (EC3.4.4.5) in the pancreas (not affected in chicks); greater inhibition of trypsin (EC 3.4.4.5) in the pancreas (not affectd in chicks); greater inhibition of trypsin (EC3.4.4.4.
(13) Simon Brew of Den of Geek wrote : "He might not be Ryan Gosling, but Affleck has quietly been impressing as an actor, and maturing as one too.
(14) Detectives have already examined the unedited footage of Gosling's feature for BBC East Midlands TV on Monday to establish if there was any collusion with members of the crew who may have been told details of the crime.
(15) Among those in the Hollywood-heavy lineup for Cannes this year will be Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, who star in Foxcatcher, the dark drama from Moneyball director Bennett Miller also competing for the Palme d'Or, while Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, Lost River, will be part of the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
(16) Investigations were extended over several years and were, more specifically, applied to 1,148 samples obtained from 525 goslings and 429 samples which had been collected from 139 Muscovy duck chickens.
(17) Gosling was arrested at his sheltered accommodation shortly after dawn and interviewed for more than nine hours by Nottinghamshire police after he admitted to the killing on TV on Monday night.
(18) Addition of methionine to the RSD improved food intake and growth rate more in goslings than in chiks.
(19) But the break could not have come at a worse time – after almost two hours of goal-less tension, fans watching from home were treated to scenes of delirious Evertonians celebrating the goal of 19-year-old Dan Gosling.
(20) The pulsatility index (as defined by Gosling) was lower at all vessel sites up to 72 h in the SGA group.