'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]