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flower bud

NOUN
  1. a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop

How To Use flower bud In A Sentence

  • They emerge, as they have again this year, as the flower buds of garlic mustard and of lady's smock appear. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have several daylilies and tradescantias with well developed flower buds.
  • Like a flower bud about to open a child laughing face, very cute.
  • This heavy bloomer gets its name from the way each flower bud swells before its starry petals unfold.
  • Cloves (from _clavus_, a nail), also found in the kitchen spice box, and owning certain medicinal resources of a cordial sort, which are quickly available, belong to the Myrtle family of plants, and are the unexpanded flower buds of an aromatic tree (_Caryophyllus_), cultivated at Penang and elsewhere. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • For estimation of pollen production, two anthers from each flower bud were examined.
  • Unfolded flower buds of rhubarb are cooked in the same ways as elderberry flowers.
  • Flower buds of the native forest trees, however, open in a progression over a six-month span, starting in April with poplars, willows, alders, and beaked hazel and ending in October with witch hazel.
  • -- Forsythia (F. x intermedia) sets its flower buds the prior year for next year's early spring blooms. Knowing when to prune is crucial for dependable flower blossoms
  • Why is my new gardenia shedding its flower buds? The Sun
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