Brewer's: Catkins

The inflorescence of hazel, birch, willow, and some other trees; so called from their resemblance to a cat's tail.

See the yellow catkins cover All the slender willows over.

Mary Howitt: Voice of Spring, stanza 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Cat-lap
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