a bud from which only flowers develop
flower bud
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flower bud
noun
A bud that will develop into a flower.
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Sentence Examples
- Those which are not required for the kitchen, if allowed to stand, and if the flower-bud is picked out on its first appearance, and the earth stirred about them, frequently produce bulbs equal in size and quality to the large ones that are imported from the Continent.
- The latter terms are applied to the flower-bud in the same way as vernation is to the leaf-bud, and distinctive names have been given to the different arrangements exhibited, both by the leaves individually and in their relations to each other.
- The manner in which the parts are arranged in the flower-bud with respect to each other before opening is the aestivation or praefloration.
- Kn, Flower-bud.
WORDS NEAR flower bud IN THE DICTIONARY
- flower bud
- flower bug
- flower child
- flower-child