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accessory bud

American  

noun

  1. Botany. a bud that is part of a cluster of buds growing around a terminal bud or above any axillary buds.

accessory bud Scientific  
/ ăk-sĕs′ə-rē /

  1. See under bud

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Generally, however, the position of the accessory bud is such that it may properly be referred to the axil of an undeveloped or rudimentary stamen.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

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