axillary bud

noun

, Botany.

a bud that is borne at the axil of a leaf and is capable of developing into a branch shoot or flower cluster.

axillary bud

/ ăk′sə-lĕr′ē /

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Sometimes the nearest axillary bud is developed; sometimes there are two, when the branch forks.

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.

An axillary bud also found that may produce a branch the same year as the leaf.

A piece of the running rootstock of the Peppermint, with its node or joint, and an axillary bud ready to grow.

An axillary bud, concealed under the hollowed base of the leaf-stalk, in Buttonwood or Plane-tree.

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