axillary bud

noun

, Botany.

1. a bud that is borne at the axil of a leaf and is capable of developing into a branch shoot or flower cluster.

axillary bud

/ ăk′sə-lĕr′ē /

1. See under bud

Example Sentences

Sometimes the nearest axillary bud is developed; sometimes there are two, when the branch forks.

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In every bud examined which contained a flower, there was an axillary bud in the axil of the last, or next to the last, leaf.

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An axillary bud also found that may produce a branch the same year as the leaf.

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A piece of the running rootstock of the Peppermint, with its node or joint, and an axillary bud ready to grow.

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An axillary bud, concealed under the hollowed base of the leaf-stalk, in Buttonwood or Plane-tree.

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