Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The scale-like outer leaves of a leaf-bud. See
scale , 2.
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Examples
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The winter-bud is an aggregate of minute buds, each concealed in the axil of a primary leaf converted into a scarious, more or less fimbriate, bud-scale.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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475 And each small bud-scale spreads its foliage hard,
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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