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bud sport
noun
- a sport resulting from a bud mutation or bud variation.
bud sport
noun
- horticulture a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bud sport1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
It is, therefore, not improbable that the variety is a bud sport of Bartlett.
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The question is brought home to us when we ask what is a bud-sport, such as a nectarine appearing on a peach-tree?
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The vine was set for Concord and is supposed to be a bud-sport of that variety.
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