in Gardening, a knot or button put forth by the branch of a tree in the spring. The word is formed from the French bourgeon, which signifies the same, formed from the Latin burrio, of burra. Burgeons amount to the same with what is otherwise called eye, bud, or germ. Frosts are chiefly dangerous when the burgons begin to appear. The burgeons have the same skin, same pith, same ligneous body, and the same inflections as the stalk, that is, all the parts are the same in both, only more contracted in the former.