What's the difference between catkin and racemose?
Catkin
Definition:
(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.
Racemose
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five patients had parenchymal cysts and presented with epilepsy; three had the racemose form and presented with hydrocephalus.
(2) We have reported a case of a racemose cyst of the fourth ventricle.
(3) Congenital anastomoses can be of the racemose hemangioma type, with severe malformation of the retinal vessels, ocular complications, and neurologic manifestations, or as simple A-V shunts with visual impairment but limited tendency to show other ocular or neurologic involvement.
(4) Microscopic examination showed the racemosal type of cysticercus but no scolex was found.
(5) The coenuri closely resembled examples of racemose cysticerci described in the literature and the present results are discussed with reference to human cases of asexually proliferating larval cestode infections.
(6) Clinical progression requires surgery, especially for racemose angiectasia.
(7) A thin subependymal or subpial rim of high signal intensity around the intraventricular and one of the racemose cysts was consistent with tissue reaction and aided diagnosis.
(8) Bronchoscopic examination revealed a polypoid tumor of the left B4 bronchus, which was resected and diagnosed as racemose hemangioma.
(9) Five patients with either capillary-cavernous hemangiomas or arteriovenous racemose hemangiomas were selected to illustrate the angiographic features of vascular malformations of the face as well as problems in angiographic evaluation and therapeutic techniques.
(10) A histological examination of a piece of the reddish, racemose tumor removed during microlaryngoscopy revealed only some slight nonspecific inflammatory changes.
(11) As well, they demonstrate that repeated cerebrospinal fluid analysis may result in diagnostic confirmation of intracerebral cysticercosis of the racemose type.
(12) generalized racemose livedo and recurrent cerebrovascular disease, is presented.
(13) Although necessary for shaping a normal racemose inflorescence, the squa function is not absolutely essential for flower development.
(14) Both patients with arteriovenous malformation had dilated, racemose feeding arteries and early dense filling of the draining veins.
(15) Fluid in apparently live cysticerci and in racemose cysts had MR signal properties closely paralleling CSF.
(16) Ultrathin serial sectioning and labeling with tannic acid have demonstrated that most plasmalemmal vesicles of rat vascular endothelial cells are not free, but rather are conjoined in three dimensions to form racemose invaginations from the cell surfaces.
(17) This syndrome is characterized by the association between generalized racemose livedo and disorders of the central nervous system, predominantly being present as cerebrovascular lesions and seizures.
(18) Degenerative stage was characterized by the presence of small cysticercotic cerebral abscess (6 cases) or infarctions (1 case), arachnoiditis with hydrocephalus (2 cases), cysticercus racemose (1 case); 3.
(19) The solitary shunt was either tubular, focally dilated or racemose in configuration.
(20) Racemose haegiomas of the retina are rare developmental anomalies.