axillary bud

American  

noun

Botany.

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

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axillary bud Scientific  

/ ăk′sə-lĕr′ē /

1. See under bud

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Example Sentences

An axillary bud is usually found in the axil—the area between the base of a leaf and the stem—where it can give rise to a branch or a flower.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Botanists have discovered that money is not only the root of all evil, but also its hypocotyl, petiole and axillary bud.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

The internodes are cylindrical and somewhat flattened on the side towards the axillary bud.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Two tiny shoots then broke through the wax of the larger shoot, looking like axillary bud shoots until closer examination showed them to be scale bud shoots.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933 by Northern Nut Growers Association