terminal bud
Americannoun
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terminal buds
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The ends of its long branches apply themselves to the ground and begin to pierce its surface, the incipient leaves of its terminal bud becoming metamorphosed into roots.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
The fourth is not cut at all owing to its shortness and weakness, its terminal bud being allowed to grow to draw strength into it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
On the cessation of growth in length, a terminal bud is formed and the tree begins to go into rest.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
When removed from the nursery rows for final planting, prune away nearly or quite all side branches, leaving only the terminal bud if the trees are not more than six to eight feet high.
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
On uninodal branchlets they form an apical group consisting of a terminal bud with a whorl of subterminal buds about its base.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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