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Catkin vs Catkind - What's the difference?

catkin | catkind |

As nouns the difference between catkin and catkind

is that catkin is a type of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar while catkind is all cats, considered as a group.

catkin

English

(wikipedia catkin)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.

    • Coordinate terms

    * raceme * spike

    catkind

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • All cats, considered as a group.
  • * 1978 , Francelia Butler (ed.), Children's literature, Volume 7
    • What Eliot had in mind by writing "Growltiger's Last Stand" is difficult to say unless it was to present catkind in one of its most deplorable states.