FLOWER BUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flower bud mean? 

• FLOWER BUD (noun)
  The noun FLOWER BUD has 1 sense:

1. a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop

  Familiarity information: FLOWER BUD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOWER BUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bud from which only a flower or flowers develop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "flower bud"):

aestivation; estivation ((botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flower bud"):

clove (aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice)