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Definition of Disbud
1. Verb. Thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers.
2. Verb. Destroy undeveloped horn buds (of cattle).
Definition of Disbud
1. v. t. To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.
Definition of Disbud
1. Verb. (context: horticulture) To remove buds from a plant in order to promote growth and health in the remaining buds. ¹
2. Verb. (context: veterinary) To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disbud
1. to remove buds from [v -BUDDED, -BUDDING, -BUDS]
Medical Definition of Disbud
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Disbud
Literary usage of Disbud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1854)
"In short, we disbud when needful, and especially two of the shoots from triple
buds on the upper sides of the branches ; and all suppressions are made that ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1853)
"... and during its course we must disbud, pinch, nail, disbud a second time, and
use summer-pruning, according as these operations are required ; performing ..."
3. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1838)
"He would disbud according to circumstances; and, in pruning and training, keep
as closely to Seymour's system as possible. lie would keep the temperature ..."
4. The Suburban Horticulturist: Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"Continue to disbud wall-trees (1301) ; remove their coverings when danger from
frost is over (1307) ; and wash the trees with soap-suds when the fruit is ..."
5. Fruits and Vegetables Under Glass: Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Figs, Grapes by William Turner (1912)
"Sometimes three or four shoots come away at a spur; under these conditions do
not take all the surplus shoots away at one time, but disbud down to two ..."
6. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"disbud peaches and nectarines (1301). MAY. VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. ... Continue to
disbud wall-trees (1301) ; remove their coverings when danger from frost is ..."
7. The Annals of Horticulture (1848)
"The coverings of most wall trees ma/ be taken off at the end of the month, but
this depends on the weather, and state of the trees ; disbud and thin the ..."
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