Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bud that contains the germ of fruit; a bud that will, under favorable circumstances, produce fruit.
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Examples
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A bud formed at the side of _s_ to continue the growth of the spur next year (1921), but it is a leaf-bud; apparently there was not sufficient energy to bear flowers and to make a fruit-bud; so there would have been no more fruit on this spur earlier than 1922: thus do we see that the alternate bearing of the apple-tree may have some of its origin in the fruit-spur.
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The bud in the center is a big one, already recognized as a fruit-bud: here is the promise of speckled, furrowed, striped apples next August.
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The lower one (_s_) grew less than an inch in 1919, and made a fruit-bud; in 1920 it blossomed and one fruit set as is shown by the square scar at the end; as the scar is small and the twig weak, we are safe in assuming that the apple was very small or else did not mature.
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The side bud in this case is a fruit-bud, but it is small and weak and is probably incapable of producing a fruit.
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The other shoots have similar histories: the long shoot _i_ bore a fruit-bud at _k_ in 1919 and a fruit in 1920; in 1920 it also made three lateral shoots and a terminal shoot, with flower-buds terminating two of them.
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Green leaves not necessary to the fruit-bud; green leaves of Colchicum belong to the new bulb not to the flower.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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From these observations I am led to doubt whether green leaves be absolutely necessary to the progress of the fruit-bud after the last year's leaves are fallen off.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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