budbreak

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budbreak (countable and uncountable, plural budbreaks)

  1. (botany) The emergence of a bud, especially on a vine
    • 1983, Thomas E. Mittler, Annual Review of Entomology, page 305:
      This group of pecan arthropods can cause damage to foliage from shortly after budbreak until about the time of pollination.