bud sport

noun

a sport resulting from a bud mutation or bud variation.

Origin of bud sport

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby bud sport

bucyrus, bud, bud fission, bud mutation, bud scale, bud sport, bud stick, bud variation, bud-sex, buda, budapest

Example sentences from the Web for bud sport

  • The question is brought home to us when we ask what is a bud-sport, such as a nectarine appearing on a peach-tree?

    Darwin and Modern Science |A.C. Seward and Others

  • The vine was set for Concord and is supposed to be a bud-sport of that variety.

    Manual of American Grape-Growing |U. P. Hedrick

British Dictionary definitions for bud sport

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