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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mixed′ bud′. - BotanySee under bud 1 (def. 1a).
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bud1 /bʌd/USA pronunciation n., v., bud•ded, bud•ding. n. - Botany any of the small parts on the end of a plant stem, from which leaves or flowers develop:[countable]The plants were showing a few buds by late April.
- a state of putting forth buds:[uncountable]roses in bud.
v. [no object] - Botanyto produce buds:The plants began to bud in early April.
- to begin to develop:His genius began to bud at an early age.
Idioms- Idioms in the bud, not developed but showing promise: a playwright in the bud.
- Idioms nip in the bud, [nip + object + in the + ~] to stop (something) in the earliest stages: to nip a mutiny in the bud.
bud2 /bʌd/USA pronunciation n. (used as a term of address to a man or boy)- buddy;
friend:"Hey bud, can you help me out, please,'' he called.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bud1 (bud),USA pronunciation n., v., bud•ded, bud•ding. n. - Botany
- a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud,) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud,) or both (mixed bud).
- an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- Zoology(in certain animals of low organization) a prominence that develops into a new individual, sometimes permanently attached to the parent and sometimes becoming detached;
gemma. - Fungi[Mycol.]a small, rounded outgrowth produced from a fungus spore or cell by a process of asexual reproduction, eventually separating from the parent cell as a new individual: commonly produced by yeast and a few other fungi.
- Anatomyany small rounded part.
- an immature or undeveloped person or thing.
- Idioms in the bud, in an immature or undeveloped state:a Shakespeare in the bud.Also, in bud.
- Idioms nip in the bud, to stop (something) in the beginning of its development:The rebellion was nipped in the bud.
v.i. - Botanyto put forth or produce buds.
- to begin to develop.
- to be in an early stage of development.
v.t. - Botanyto cause to bud.
- Botany[Hort.]to graft by inserting a single bud into the stock.
- 1350–1400; Middle English budde bud, spray, pod; akin to German Hagebutte hip, Old Norse budda purse, dialect, dialectal Swedish bodd head, Dutch buidel bag, purse, Middle Low German buddich swollen
- brother;
buddy (used in informal address, as to one's brother or to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
- back formation from buddy 1850–55, American.
- a male given name.
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