Meaning of bud in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

  Example: After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.

• Something that has begun to develop.

  Example: breast buds

• A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

  Example: In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.

• (usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

  Example: Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?

• A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

• (term of endearment) A pretty young girl.

verb

• To form buds.

  Example: The trees are finally starting to bud.

• To reproduce by splitting off buds.

  Example: Yeast reproduces by budding.

• To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

• To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

• To put forth as a bud.

• To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

noun

• Buddy, friend.

  Example: I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.

• Used to address a male