bud
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *buzdǭ (compare archaic German Butte (“rosehip”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”). Compare also German Low German Butte, Butt (“bud”), Dutch bot (“bud”), regional German Butz, Butzen (“seed pod; apple core”), German Low German Haagbutt ("rosehip"; Haagbudden (“rosehips”, plural)).
Inflected forms:
form: buds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: budding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: budded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: budded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac.
gloss: Something that has begun to develop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: breast buds
gloss: A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
gloss: Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
countable
plural-normally
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: You got any buds?
gloss: Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
gloss: A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pretty young girl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: My pretty bud was unfolding and I was not there to see it. She was developing so rapidly, I felt I could not be from her a day without missing some sweetness that could never come again.
gloss: To form buds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The trees are finally starting to bud.
And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
gloss: To reproduce by splitting off buds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yeast reproduces by budding.
gloss: To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
gloss: To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?
gloss: To put forth as a bud.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What appeared the same to us really wasn't. Every day was different, if we looked closely enough. Like the topiary tree that finally budded a rose after Terrence died: […]
Once, he was put on a course of potent hormone pills, coming off them when he woke up one morning to discover he was budding breasts
gloss: To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: abud
bud borer
budburst
buddy
bud grafting
budless
budlet
budlike
budling
bud moth
budmoth
bud of promise
budtender
budwood
budworm
cotton bud
cotton wool bud
cuckoobud
debud
disbud
ear bud
ear-bud
endbud
farcy bud
heifer-bud
interbud
killer green bud
kind bud
kine bud
leaf bud
leafbud
lovebud
Mary-bud
microbud
nanobud
nip in the bud
odds bud
ods bud
pancreatic bud
redbud
rosebud
rumbud
rum bud
seed-bud
strawberry bud weevil
tailbud
taste bud
tastebud
budder
bud off
bud out
bud up
outbud
rebud
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