LEAF BUD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("leaf bud" is a kind of...):

bud (a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals)

Meronyms (parts of "leaf bud"):

vernation ((botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens)

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