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A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.

ed . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

A flower bud. Gray.

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.

Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds." Gray.

The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. Malcom.

A flower, but of what kind is unknown. [Obs.] Her snowy brows, like budded belamours. Spenser.

To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

oidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.

Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. -- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. -- Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. -- Blind cat (Zoöl.), a specie…

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.

To flourish and prosper. Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit. Isa. xxvii. 6.

A blossoming; a bloom. [Obs. or Archaic] "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.

ree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sen…