budnoun
uk/bʌd/us/bʌd/bud noun (PLANT PART)
[ C ] a small part of a plant, that develops into a flower or leaf
in bud
covered with buds:
It was springtime and the fruit trees were in bud.
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Parts of plants
- aerial root
- cambium
- cane
- corm
- cotyledon
- fig leaf
- frond
- lamina
- leafless
- lily pad
- meristem
- micropyle
- nectary
- needle
- organ
- rootstock
- testa
- the treetops
- trunk
- twig
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New growth in plants
bud noun (MAN)
[ C ] US informal → buddy noun
bud noun (DRUGS)
[ U ] slang cannabis or marijuana
budverb [ I ]
uk/bʌd/us/bʌd/-dd-to produce buds:
The unusually cold winter has caused many plants to bud late this year.
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New growth in plants
- coccygeus
- collateral
- colli
- colliculus
- collum
- commissure
- communis
- compartment
- complement system
- established
- eye
- shoot
- sprout
- sucker