Leaf Bud

Word LEAF BUD
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The word "leaf-bud" in example sentences

It is, however, natural to consider a polypus, furnished with a mouth, intestines, and other organs, as a distinct individual, whereas the individuality of a leaf-bud is not easily realised; so that the union of separate individuals in a common body is more striking in ❋ Unknown (2003)

During this pause three small boys padded up the flagstoned passage from the depths of the house behind me, concentratedly threaded a way around me and out through the pair beyond and silently climbed like cats up into the fuzzy bursting leaf-bud embrace of an ancient spreading oak nearby on the lawn. ❋ Francis, Dick (1993)

This is called "budding," and is done by cutting off a thin slip of bark with a tiny folded-up leaf-bud on it, inserting the graft in the branch to be budded and securing it there with wax to keep the air out. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)

John Lindley proposed the following classification for the various forms, which includes all yet cultivated: (1) All the leaf-buds active and open, as in wild cabbage and kale or greens; (2) All the leaf-buds active, but forming heads, as in Brussels sprouts; (3) Terminal leaf-bud alone active, forming a head, as in common cabbage, savoys, &c. ❋ Various (N/A)

The prolonged axis is more frequently terminated by a flower-bud than by a leaf-bud, though it must be remarked, that the lengthened and protruded stem frequently bears leaves upon its sides, even if it terminate in a flower, and thus the new growth partakes of a mixed leafy and floral nature. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The best results have been obtained with leaf-bud cuttings. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

= -- As already stated, this is of more common occurrence than the formation of a leaf-bud in a similar situation. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Here, too, may be mentioned those cases wherein a leaf-bud is found upon the surface of the so-called inferior ovary; generally a leaf only is found, but a leaf-bud may also originate in this situation, and in either case the inference is that the ovary is, in part at least, made of the dilated and hollowed axis. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

= -- The formation of an adventitious leaf-bud in the axil of any of the parts of the flower is not of such common occurrence as the development of a flower-bud in similar situations, nor is it so frequent as median foliar prolification. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Where there is evidently a passage from leaf-bud to flower-bud, or _vice versâ_, the case would be one of metamorphy. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The accessory bud presents itself as a leaf-bud, a branch, a flower-bud, or a miniature inflorescence; it may be sessile, but is far more frequently stalked, and in more than half the number of cases it is a flower-bud or an inflorescence. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

A root develops which pushes its way down into the soil, while the leaf-bud of the plant, which springs from the other end of the seed, works its way upward toward the light and air. ❋ Charles Lathrop Pack (N/A)

The word Displacement is here used to signify the unusual position of an organ; while Heterotaxy may serve to include those cases where a new growth makes its appearance in an unwonted situation, as, for instance, a leaf-bud on a root, &c. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

; (4) Terminal leaf-bud alone active and open, with most of the flowers abortive and succulent, as in cauliflower and broccoli; (5) All the leaf-buds active and open, with most of the flowers abortive and succulent, as in sprouting broccoli. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is, in fact, more like a leaf-bud than a flower. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Now, in prolified flowers the functions and, to a considerable extent, the appearance of a leaf-bud or of a branch are assumed, and with them the tendency to grow in length is developed. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

In both forms the adventitious growth is much more frequently a flower-bud or an inflorescence than a leaf-bud or a branch. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

In this case the corolla and calyx were distant from each other; there was no trace of stamens, but the axis was continued from the centre of the corolla, and ended in a leaf-bud. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Next select a branch of the current year's growth on which there is a well-formed leaf-bud. ❋ Alfred Pink (N/A)

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