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A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

Having buds; reproducing by buds.

Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.

The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

Producing gems or buds; (Biol.)

The production of a bud or gem.

Having flowers like buds.

Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.

Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.

A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.

um. -- Germ gland. (Anat.) See Gonad. -- Germ stock (Zoöl.), a special process on which buds are developed in certain animals. See Doliolum. -- Germ theory (Biol.), the theory that living organisms can be produced only by the evolution or development of living germs or seeds. See Biogenesis, and Abiogenesis. As appl…

Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds.

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. Bacon.

Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. (Biol.) Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.

To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. Burns.

The cuckoobud.

A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.