flower-bud

Corey slowly raised his closed palm, then unfolded it painstakingly, like a flower-bud.

The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

Now they had unfolded from the hard flower-bud, and had the wonder, and the stillness of

The Ladybird 2003

The green fruit curved out its bristly-soft bunch, the purple flower-bud depending stiffly.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

But behold! the tiny flower-bud of the fern reddened and moved as though alive.

St John's Eve 2003

But behold! the tiny flower-bud of the fern reddened and moved as though alive.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

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.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

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.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

= -- It is very doubtful whether a flower-bud has ever been found actually on a leaf.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

On the 19th August one of the plants had attained a height of above 28 inches, and had nine fine leaves and a flower-bud; the other was about

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson

The stamens presented different degrees of development; in some cases they were fully formed, the anther-lobes open, and the pollen exposed; while in other instances the filaments were involute or circinate, just as the ordinary stamens are in the unexpanded flower-bud.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters