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nounPlural buds bʌdbəd 1A compact growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot. Example sentencesExamples - In addition, they have four or five scaly leaves with lateral buds on their epicotyl.
- The ratio between the number of leaf and flower primordia per bud varied with shoot type.
- In shoots, strong CHL1 expression is found in young leaves and developing flower buds.
- When the plants flowered, buds of different developmental stages were removed from the main inflorescence and the petals were dissected from the flower bud under a binocular microscope.
- The newly emerged adults feed on young leaves and flower buds.
- After 48 days of growth, the number of flowers, buds, and seed pods on each plant was counted as a measure of the total flower number.
- The leafy stems, bearing terminal preformed flower buds, sprout from the underground tuberous roots in early spring.
- Flower buds and leaves were collected from flowering plants in each population and stored in zipper sealed plastic bags on ice.
- Aphids also tend to like tender shoots and flower buds as these organs have a lot of phloem transport; this causes bud loss and fewer new leaves.
- New leaves and flower buds develop before Christmas and usually open in January and, depending on the severity of the winter, by February it has formed a clump of blooms and foliage.
- Flower buds develop in leaf nodes in the upper part of the flowering shoot.
- Leaf discs and the unpollinated pistils of unopened flower buds from both the control and HTS-treated plants were also collected for total RNA extraction.
- The new winter flowering pansies seemed to be raring to go when we planted them on Sunday and are already showing signs of leaf growth and new flower buds.
- Quail typically hunt for seeds, grain, grasses, plant leaves and buds, acorns, and insects.
- Burbank studied life at its fountain head - in the marvelous little buds and shoots and leaves that burgeon forth each spring to fill us anew with the awe for nature.
- After a rain, its barren, gray-black stems change overnight to green as small leaves emerge from buds covering the plant.
- Flower meristem, flower buds, and leaves from green and 2 d-etiolated plants were analysed for ATP and ADP contents.
- Take off side shoots and flower buds and cut large leaves in half to reduce water loss.
- Spent flower blooms and affected buds, leaves or stems should be removed when plants are dry.
- Sampson is also looking at ways to control the blueberry gall midge, a fly that attacks the flower and leaf buds of blueberry plants.
Synonyms sprout, shoot, flowerlet, floret - 1.1Biology An outgrowth from an organism, e.g. a yeast cell, that separates to form a new individual without sexual reproduction taking place.
Example sentencesExamples - Careful examination of serial sections failed to ascertain the presence of true meristematic cells in these atrophied buds.
- The next day 30-50 cells containing small buds were micromanipulated to isolated areas of the plate.
- Cells with a small bud or tiny projections were observed.
- At this point, 60% of the cells had large buds that continued to elongate with prolonged incubation.
- Moreover, in flocculent strains such as 1278b it is difficult to distinguish between two adherent cells and a cell with a large bud.
- 1.2Zoology with modifier A rudimentary leg or other appendage of an animal which has not yet grown, or never will grow, to full size.
in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops Example sentencesExamples - At this time the limb bud can undergo as much as a three-fold increase in size.
- During the embryonic stage, the tonsils arise from the second pharyngeal pouch as buds of endodermal cells.
- Around the 8th week after conception, oval-shaped tooth buds consisting of cells form in the embryo.
- This probably reflects the presence of stem cells in the nail bud rather than cell dedifferentiation.
- At the time of tooth bud formation, each tooth begins a continuous movement outward in relation to the bone.
2US informal mass noun Cannabis. I found him outside, smoking some bud Example sentencesExamples - I eventually and begrudgingly passed it on, but only once the burning bud had been smoked to ash.
- These drugs were alcohol, marijuana (including "regular" and high-potency marijuana or "bud"), and ecstasy (a recreational drug, the use of which peaked during the time of this study).
- Very relaxing and ultra potent, the smoke from this legal bud is sure to impress ANY herbal toker.
- The Aussies were smoking high-quality B.C. bud and waxing their snowboards with hydrocarbon Swix and a clothes iron.
- Contrary to what the media hype over "BC Bud" would have the public believe, the vast majority of marijuana imported into the U.S. comes from Mexico.
- Meanwhile, bud has been demonized, criminalized, and the drug war has been industrialized.
- They must have some killer bud.
- Unlike anything else legally available today, this bud is ultra potent.
verbbudded, buds, budding bʌdbəd [no object]Biology 1(of a plant or animal) form a bud. new blood vessels bud out from the vascular bed Example sentencesExamples - In the absence of growth inhibition cells are smaller and follow the normal axial budding pattern of haploid cells, in which new cells bud adjacent to the previous site of cytokinesis.
- Spring growth was budding on the shrubs around the front porch, the weather vane atop one of the turrets facing out to the lake.
- Egg chambers bud off from the germarium, although they are abnormal.
- Spring has come to Shanghai and we can again see flowers blooming and trees budding.
- Meanwhile, bulbs and seeds sprout, trees bud, and insects emerge and start consuming the tender foliage.
- The squirrels and the chipmunks frolicked in the interlacing tree branches that budded with new life.
- At one point the temperature was up to 11C; nature has been knocked out of kilter, with adders emerging from hibernation and plants budding.
- Moreover, tetraploid cells do not bud or show abnormal mitotic spindles when placed in water.
- It buds late and therefore avoids devastation by most spring frosts but is an irregular yielder.
- The tips of these aerial hyphae swell to form a vesicle, and layers of cells bud off of the vesicle.
- The virion of MuLV classifies it as a C-type virus, which assembles at the surface of infected cells, and acquires a plasma membrane envelope as it buds from a cell.
- Mitochondria are dynamic structures, constantly changing shape, budding and fusing.
- Meanwhile, corals bud on, and both their sexual and asexual activities provide evidence of reproductive success and hybrid forms that continue to puzzle geneticists.
- Inland, willows are budding and azaleas are blooming.
- Additionally, the coil has bioactive properties to promote healing of the aneurysm ‘neck’ where it buds from the blood vessel.
- No harm will come to your rose if it has already started to bud up and grow and you prune it back during that stage.
- When the limits of the substrate have been reached, a Hydractinia colony will bud reproductive polyps called gonozooids from the stolonal mat.
- Many of the carpets use flowers and wheels, both suggestive of a cyclical life: flowers bud, bloom, and then die, and their beauty is only ephemeral.
- One effect is that flowers are now budding 19 days earlier as spring moves forwards.
- A dancer's career is in any case as brief as that of a spring flower - it buds, it blooms, it fades, leaving behind just the fleet fragrance of memories.
Synonyms sprout, shoot, form/develop buds, send out shoots, germinate, burgeon, swell, vegetate, mature technical pullulate - 1.1with object Graft a bud of (a plant) on to another plant.
Example sentencesExamples - Rather than having been budded onto a rootstock, shrublets grow on their own roots, making these plants less susceptible to the ravages of winter.
- The most vulnerable point on most rose plants is the bud union - the point at which the rose variety was budded onto a rootstock.
- Most roses are budded onto a hardy rootstock, so there will be a ‘neck’ that's about 4 inches long just above the roots.
- Most plants that were imported from France and Israel, were budded onto Rosa indica major (referred to as ‘Indica’) selections.
- It is something of a myth that only roses that have been budded on to a rootstock by a nurseryman will grow.
Phrases (of a plant) having newly formed buds. pale pink flowers which are of deeper colour in bud Example sentencesExamples - Spring bulbs and wild flowers are in bud, some in bloom.
- Oil is strongest when the plant is in bud but before flowers open.
- Only a few flowers of Utricularia cornuta, normally abundant at this season, were noted; and Lophiola aurea, another plant normally in good bloom at this date, was in bud only.
- Aromatic oils are most concentrated when herb plants are in bud, so that's a good time to harvest, although you can certainly take cuttings here and there during the growing season.
- This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
- The late spring blossom is pink in bud, opening white, and the ovoid fruits, which are brilliant orange-red, deepening to crimson, last extremely well despite their appetising colouring.
- You can buy the bulbs and pot them up or plants will be available in bud.
- During a field visit the following spring, approximately 100 plants were observed, mostly in bud, on a seasonally moist, sandy substrate with vegetation mowed on a regular basis.
- About 10 percent of the population was in bud or early flower on that date, but many plants were still in a pre-bud stage.
- A suburban landscape, neatly mowed lawns, trees in bud, faces I have known all or the better part of my life, the backdrop of my childhood.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. Rhymes blood, crud, cud, dud, flood, Judd, mud, rudd, scud, spud, stud, sudd, thud nounPlural buds bʌdbəd North American informal A friendly form of address from one boy or man to another. Example sentencesExamples - I've only got enough Spaghettio's for my family, bud.
- Ariela smiled slyly, ‘Thanks, bud,’ she said and ran towards it.
- He dragged his bags past us, and giving a distasteful look at me said, ‘Want some advice, bud?’
- They just wanted to get together for one more night and bid my son farewell - to say, ‘We love you, bud, and we're going to miss you.’
- But I can still give you a run for your money, bud.
- That's a very interesting theory there, bud.
- And don't bring up Liz again tonight, all right, bud?
- Not verbally, but I could just tell, it was a feeling, bud.
- Well, I'll tell ya, bud, until you find yourself a prince who will take you away from all this, it's not about you.
- ‘Because she's as head over heels as you are, bud,’ James answered.
Origin Mid 19th century: abbreviation of buddy. nounbədbəd 1A compact growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot. Example sentencesExamples - Take off side shoots and flower buds and cut large leaves in half to reduce water loss.
- When the plants flowered, buds of different developmental stages were removed from the main inflorescence and the petals were dissected from the flower bud under a binocular microscope.
- Aphids also tend to like tender shoots and flower buds as these organs have a lot of phloem transport; this causes bud loss and fewer new leaves.
- Spent flower blooms and affected buds, leaves or stems should be removed when plants are dry.
- The new winter flowering pansies seemed to be raring to go when we planted them on Sunday and are already showing signs of leaf growth and new flower buds.
- The ratio between the number of leaf and flower primordia per bud varied with shoot type.
- In addition, they have four or five scaly leaves with lateral buds on their epicotyl.
- In shoots, strong CHL1 expression is found in young leaves and developing flower buds.
- Quail typically hunt for seeds, grain, grasses, plant leaves and buds, acorns, and insects.
- The leafy stems, bearing terminal preformed flower buds, sprout from the underground tuberous roots in early spring.
- Flower meristem, flower buds, and leaves from green and 2 d-etiolated plants were analysed for ATP and ADP contents.
- New leaves and flower buds develop before Christmas and usually open in January and, depending on the severity of the winter, by February it has formed a clump of blooms and foliage.
- The newly emerged adults feed on young leaves and flower buds.
- After 48 days of growth, the number of flowers, buds, and seed pods on each plant was counted as a measure of the total flower number.
- Sampson is also looking at ways to control the blueberry gall midge, a fly that attacks the flower and leaf buds of blueberry plants.
- Flower buds and leaves were collected from flowering plants in each population and stored in zipper sealed plastic bags on ice.
- After a rain, its barren, gray-black stems change overnight to green as small leaves emerge from buds covering the plant.
- Burbank studied life at its fountain head - in the marvelous little buds and shoots and leaves that burgeon forth each spring to fill us anew with the awe for nature.
- Leaf discs and the unpollinated pistils of unopened flower buds from both the control and HTS-treated plants were also collected for total RNA extraction.
- Flower buds develop in leaf nodes in the upper part of the flowering shoot.
Synonyms sprout, shoot, flowerlet, floret - 1.1Biology An outgrowth from an organism, e.g. a yeast cell, that separates to form a new individual without sexual reproduction taking place.
Example sentencesExamples - Careful examination of serial sections failed to ascertain the presence of true meristematic cells in these atrophied buds.
- Cells with a small bud or tiny projections were observed.
- The next day 30-50 cells containing small buds were micromanipulated to isolated areas of the plate.
- At this point, 60% of the cells had large buds that continued to elongate with prolonged incubation.
- Moreover, in flocculent strains such as 1278b it is difficult to distinguish between two adherent cells and a cell with a large bud.
- 1.2Zoology with modifier (of an animal) a rudimentary leg or other appendage that has not yet grown, or never will grow, to full size.
Example sentencesExamples - At this time the limb bud can undergo as much as a three-fold increase in size.
- This probably reflects the presence of stem cells in the nail bud rather than cell dedifferentiation.
- At the time of tooth bud formation, each tooth begins a continuous movement outward in relation to the bone.
- Around the 8th week after conception, oval-shaped tooth buds consisting of cells form in the embryo.
- During the embryonic stage, the tonsils arise from the second pharyngeal pouch as buds of endodermal cells.
2US informal Marijuana. I found him outside, smoking some bud Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, bud has been demonized, criminalized, and the drug war has been industrialized.
- The Aussies were smoking high-quality B.C. bud and waxing their snowboards with hydrocarbon Swix and a clothes iron.
- I eventually and begrudgingly passed it on, but only once the burning bud had been smoked to ash.
- Unlike anything else legally available today, this bud is ultra potent.
- Contrary to what the media hype over "BC Bud" would have the public believe, the vast majority of marijuana imported into the U.S. comes from Mexico.
- These drugs were alcohol, marijuana (including "regular" and high-potency marijuana or "bud"), and ecstasy (a recreational drug, the use of which peaked during the time of this study).
- Very relaxing and ultra potent, the smoke from this legal bud is sure to impress ANY herbal toker.
- They must have some killer bud.
verbbədbəd [no object]Biology 1(of a plant or animal) form a bud. new blood vessels bud out from the vascular bed with object tapeworms bud off egg-bearing sections from their tail end Example sentencesExamples - Spring growth was budding on the shrubs around the front porch, the weather vane atop one of the turrets facing out to the lake.
- No harm will come to your rose if it has already started to bud up and grow and you prune it back during that stage.
- One effect is that flowers are now budding 19 days earlier as spring moves forwards.
- At one point the temperature was up to 11C; nature has been knocked out of kilter, with adders emerging from hibernation and plants budding.
- Additionally, the coil has bioactive properties to promote healing of the aneurysm ‘neck’ where it buds from the blood vessel.
- Mitochondria are dynamic structures, constantly changing shape, budding and fusing.
- Spring has come to Shanghai and we can again see flowers blooming and trees budding.
- It buds late and therefore avoids devastation by most spring frosts but is an irregular yielder.
- Many of the carpets use flowers and wheels, both suggestive of a cyclical life: flowers bud, bloom, and then die, and their beauty is only ephemeral.
- When the limits of the substrate have been reached, a Hydractinia colony will bud reproductive polyps called gonozooids from the stolonal mat.
- Inland, willows are budding and azaleas are blooming.
- In the absence of growth inhibition cells are smaller and follow the normal axial budding pattern of haploid cells, in which new cells bud adjacent to the previous site of cytokinesis.
- A dancer's career is in any case as brief as that of a spring flower - it buds, it blooms, it fades, leaving behind just the fleet fragrance of memories.
- The tips of these aerial hyphae swell to form a vesicle, and layers of cells bud off of the vesicle.
- The virion of MuLV classifies it as a C-type virus, which assembles at the surface of infected cells, and acquires a plasma membrane envelope as it buds from a cell.
- Meanwhile, corals bud on, and both their sexual and asexual activities provide evidence of reproductive success and hybrid forms that continue to puzzle geneticists.
- Moreover, tetraploid cells do not bud or show abnormal mitotic spindles when placed in water.
- The squirrels and the chipmunks frolicked in the interlacing tree branches that budded with new life.
- Meanwhile, bulbs and seeds sprout, trees bud, and insects emerge and start consuming the tender foliage.
- Egg chambers bud off from the germarium, although they are abnormal.
Synonyms sprout, shoot, develop buds, form buds, send out shoots, germinate, burgeon, swell, vegetate, mature - 1.1with object Graft a bud of (a plant) on to another plant.
Example sentencesExamples - Rather than having been budded onto a rootstock, shrublets grow on their own roots, making these plants less susceptible to the ravages of winter.
- Most roses are budded onto a hardy rootstock, so there will be a ‘neck’ that's about 4 inches long just above the roots.
- The most vulnerable point on most rose plants is the bud union - the point at which the rose variety was budded onto a rootstock.
- Most plants that were imported from France and Israel, were budded onto Rosa indica major (referred to as ‘Indica’) selections.
- It is something of a myth that only roses that have been budded on to a rootstock by a nurseryman will grow.
Phrases (of a plant) having newly formed buds. Example sentencesExamples - This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
- Spring bulbs and wild flowers are in bud, some in bloom.
- During a field visit the following spring, approximately 100 plants were observed, mostly in bud, on a seasonally moist, sandy substrate with vegetation mowed on a regular basis.
- A suburban landscape, neatly mowed lawns, trees in bud, faces I have known all or the better part of my life, the backdrop of my childhood.
- Aromatic oils are most concentrated when herb plants are in bud, so that's a good time to harvest, although you can certainly take cuttings here and there during the growing season.
- You can buy the bulbs and pot them up or plants will be available in bud.
- Oil is strongest when the plant is in bud but before flowers open.
- Only a few flowers of Utricularia cornuta, normally abundant at this season, were noted; and Lophiola aurea, another plant normally in good bloom at this date, was in bud only.
- The late spring blossom is pink in bud, opening white, and the ovoid fruits, which are brilliant orange-red, deepening to crimson, last extremely well despite their appetising colouring.
- About 10 percent of the population was in bud or early flower on that date, but many plants were still in a pre-bud stage.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. nounbədbəd North American informal A form of address, usually to a boy or man, used especially when the name of the one being addressed is not known. listen, bud, I saw you there with my own eyes Example sentencesExamples - And don't bring up Liz again tonight, all right, bud?
- Well, I'll tell ya, bud, until you find yourself a prince who will take you away from all this, it's not about you.
- ‘Because she's as head over heels as you are, bud,’ James answered.
- But I can still give you a run for your money, bud.
- He dragged his bags past us, and giving a distasteful look at me said, ‘Want some advice, bud?’
- Ariela smiled slyly, ‘Thanks, bud,’ she said and ran towards it.
- Not verbally, but I could just tell, it was a feeling, bud.
- That's a very interesting theory there, bud.
- I've only got enough Spaghettio's for my family, bud.
- They just wanted to get together for one more night and bid my son farewell - to say, ‘We love you, bud, and we're going to miss you.’
Origin Mid 19th century: abbreviation of buddy. |