axillary bud
Americannoun
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An axillary bud is usually found in the axil—the area between the base of a leaf and the stem—where it can give rise to a branch or a flower.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Botanists have discovered that money is not only the root of all evil, but also its hypocotyl, petiole and axillary bud.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
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.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Newell, Jane H.
Sometimes the nearest axillary bud is developed; sometimes there are two, when the branch forks.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Newell, Jane H.
Two tiny shoots then broke through the wax of the larger shoot, looking like axillary bud shoots until closer examination showed them to be scale bud shoots.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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