(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.
Panicle
Definition:
(n.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genetic control of four developmental characters was studied in Amaranthus caudatus L. Determinant panicle growth was determined by one recessive gene.
(2) The phosphorylation of pp70 does not depend by exogenous Ca++ or cAMP, suggesting that pp70 is a major substrate of an Ca++ or cAMP independent protein kinase in rice young panicle.
(3) This mutant was crossed with a heavy-panicle type variety, and semi-dwarf plants permitting a more efficient distribution of light within the canopy were obtained.
(4) Two major genes governed panicle orientation, with erect panicles incompletely dominant to drooping panicles.
(5) Additional modifier genes appeared to alter expression of panicle orientation.
(6) The pp70 which represents the major phosphoprotein in the crude extract of young panicle of rice is a cytosolic protein.
(7) This gene (Gns1) is expressed at relatively low levels in germinating seeds, shoots, leaves, panicles and callus, but it is expressed at higher levels in roots.
(8) 2) In the studied species of artiodactyla, cow, pig and sheep, a qualitative new, panicle-like pattern arised as a result of superposition of spermatozoa head pendular movements around the axis of forward motility and the other one around the head axis.
(9) It was also effective against neck and panicle blast at the same concentration range.
(10) At least eight major phosphoproteins with apparent molecular weights of 70, 60, 52, 40, 33, 30, 20, 16 and 15 kd were detected in the crude extract of rice young panicle.
(11) The endogenous phosphorylation pattern of the extract prepared from rice young panicle has been examined.