terminal bud
noun
a bud at the end of a twig or stem, essential for the growth of a stem.
terminal buds
-
pluralof terminal bud.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In spring the terminal buds of saplings best show the peculiarity of the tree's vernation.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
This is commonly a flat-topped or convex flower-cluster, like a corymb, only the blossoms are from terminal buds.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
They represent the scars of the scales of the past terminal buds.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Female flowers minute, entirely hidden within the buds during the winter, but early in spring their bright red, thread-like stigmas push out from the tips of the lateral or terminal buds.
From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Andrew S. Fuller
Seeds scale-like.—Shrubs or small trees, of diverse habit and character, with chiefly alternate entire leaves, and large and showy flowers in umbelled clusters from large scaly-bracted terminal buds.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
