budlike

budlike
Resembling a bud (newly formed leaf or flower, as yet unfolded).

His excellent hands were eagerly moving restlessly for the close embrace of the covering of the budlike breasts of Apita-kuca.


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  • budlike — adj. resembling a bud, sprout like …   English contemporary dictionary

  • gemma — Any budlike or bulblike body, especially a taste bud or end bulb. [L. bud] * * * gem·ma jem ə n, pl gem·mae .ē BUD broadly an asexual reproductive body that becomes detached from a parent plant * * * gem·ma (jemґə) [L. “bud”] a budlike… …   Medical dictionary

  • gemma — gem·ma || dÊ’emÉ™ n. leaf bud; budlike growth which separates from the parent plant to form a new one (Botany); budlike growth which separates from the parent organism to form a new one (Zoology) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • gemmae — gem·ma || dÊ’emÉ™ n. leaf bud; budlike growth which separates from the parent plant to form a new one (Botany); budlike growth which separates from the parent organism to form a new one (Zoology) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Blastoidea — Blas*toid e*a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. blasto s sprout + oid.] (Zo[ o]l.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Amblyopappus — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …   Wikipedia

  • Ochlerotatus cantator — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: I …   Wikipedia

  • bud — bud1 budder, n. budless, adj. budlike, adj. /bud/, n., v., budded, budding. n. 1. Bot. a. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud), the rudimentary inflorescence …   Universalium

  • gemma — /jem euh/, n., pl. gemmae /jem ee/. 1. a bud. 2. Bot. a cell or cluster of cells, or a leaflike or budlike body, that separates from the parent plant to form a new organism, as in mosses and liverworts. [1760 70; < L: bud, GEM] * * * …   Universalium

  • gymnosperm — gymnospermism, n. /jim neuh sperrm /, n. Bot. a vascular plant having seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary; a conifer or cycad. Cf. angiosperm. [1820 30; < NL gymnospermae name of type. See GYMNO , SPERM] * * * Any woody plant that reproduces… …   Universalium

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