Bud

(bud.) [A.S. bod a; Fr. bouton.] (Bot.) The buds are organized parts of a plant, of an oval, round, or conical form, and containing the rudiments of future branches, leaves, or flowers, which remain without breaking, on producing them, until circumstances form their development. The same buds, accordingly, as circumstances vary, produce either flowers or leaves. Buds spring from the alburnum. They are formed, at first, only in the axils of leaves; but if these buds aro destroyed, what are termed adventitious or latent buds are formed, in the neighborhood of the regular buds. Bucyrus, a village of Ohio, Crawford co.,on the Sandusky river. Pop. 3,066. [s. 121]