'Bud' definitions:
Definition of 'bud'
(from WordNet)
noun
A partially opened flower
noun
A swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
verb
Develop buds; "The hibiscus is budding!"
verb
Start to grow or develop; "a budding friendship"
Definition of 'Bud'
From: GCIDE
- Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding.]
- 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bud'
From: GCIDE
- Bud \Bud\ (b[u^]d), n. [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of the dog-rose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See Button.]
- 1. (Bot.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. [1913 Webster]
- Bud moth (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bud'
From: GCIDE
- Bud \Bud\, v. t. To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. [1913 Webster]
- The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. --Farm. Dict. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bud'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acrospire,
- Anlage,
- aunt,
- auntie,
- blood brother,
- boy,
- brethren,
- brother,
- bub,
- bubba,
- buck,
- buddy,
- burgeon,
- burst forth,
- chick,
- chickabiddy,
- colt,
- country cousin,
- cousin,
- cousin once removed,
- cousin twice removed,
- cub,
- daughter,
- egg,
- embryo,
- engraft,
- father,
- fellow,
- first cousin,
- fledgling,
- flourish,
- flower bud,
- foster brother,
- frater,
- gemma,
- gemmate,
- gemmula,
- gemmule,
- germ,
- germen,
- germinate,
- graft,
- grandnephew,
- grandniece,
- granduncle,
- great-aunt,
- great-uncle,
- grow,
- grow rank,
- half brother,
- hobbledehoy,
- imp,
- implant,
- inarch,
- juvenile,
- kid,
- kid brother,
- lad,
- laddie,
- leaf,
- leaf bud,
- leaf out,
- leave,
- loins,
- luxuriate,
- manchild,
- master,
- moppet,
- mother,
- muchacho,
- nephew,
- niece,
- nipper,
- nucleus,
- nuncle,
- nunks,
- nunky,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- ovum,
- plumule,
- pullulate,
- pup,
- puppy,
- put forth,
- put forth leaves,
- put out buds,
- riot,
- root,
- rudiment,
- schoolboy,
- second cousin,
- seed,
- shoot,
- shoot up,
- sis,
- sissy,
- sister,
- sister-german,
- sistern,
- son,
- sonny,
- sonny boy,
- spark,
- spermatozoon,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- stepbrother,
- stepsister,
- strike root,
- take root,
- unc,
- uncle,
- uncs,
- upspear,
- upsprout,
- uterine brother,
- vegetate,
- whelp,
- young man,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth
Words containing 'Bud'
- Budded,
- Budding,
- Bud moth,
- Cassia buds,
- Farcy bud,
- Flower bud,
- Fruit bud,
- Latent buds,
- Leaf bud,
- Medusa bud,
- Red Bud,
- Rose Bud,
- Rum bud,
- Seed bud,
- Taste buds,
- To nip in the bud,
- Winter bud,
- arnica bud,
- brood bud,
- bud brush,
- bud sagebrush,
- mixed bud,
- nip in the bud,
- taste bud,
- winter buds,
- Mary-bud,
- Red Bud, IL,
- Rose Bud, AR,
- big-bud hickory,
- involute rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud having margins rolled inward