Definition of "leaf-bud" [leaf-bud]

• A bud producing a stem with leaves only, as distinguished from a flower-bud, technically called a gemma. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It is, however, natural to consider a polypus, furnished with a mouth, intestines, and other organs, as a distinct individual, whereas the individuality of a leaf-bud is not easily realised; so that the union of separate individuals in a common body is more striking in"
• "During this pause three small boys padded up the flagstoned passage from the depths of the house behind me, concentratedly threaded a way around me and out through the pair beyond and silently climbed like cats up into the fuzzy bursting leaf-bud embrace of an ancient spreading oak nearby on the lawn."
• "It is, in fact, more like a leaf-bud than a flower."