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Definition of 'BUD'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bud
any of the small terminal bulges on a plant stem, from which leaves or flowers develop.

2.  bud
a state of putting forth buds:
roses in bud.

3.  bud
a partially opened flower or leaf.

4.  bud
a prominence that emerges or branches from the main body of certain relatively simple organisms, as sponges and yeasts, and develops asexually into a new individual.

5.  bud
an immature or undeveloped person or thing.

6. (v.i.) bud
to put forth or produce buds.

7.  bud
to begin to develop.

8. (v.t.) bud
to cause to bud.

9.  bud
Hort. to graft by inserting a single bud into the stock.

10. (n.) bud
buddy; friend (used in informal address to a man or boy).

Etymology: (1850–55, Amer.; back formation from buddy)

Definition of 'BUD'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bud
a partially opened flower

2. (verb) bud
a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

3. (verb) bud
develop buds
"The hibiscus is budding!"

4. (verb) bud
start to grow or develop
"a budding friendship"

Definition of 'BUD'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bud
a leaf or a flower before it opens
a rose bud

2. (verb) bud
to develop buds
The daisies are budding.

Definition of 'BUD'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) BUD
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

2. (noun) BUD
a small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra

3. (verb) BUD
to put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot

4. (verb) BUD
to begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn

5. (verb) BUD
to be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin

6. (verb) BUD
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

Translation of 'BUD'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a shoot of a tree or plant, containing undeveloped leaves or flower(s) or both Are there buds on the trees yet?; a rosebud.
Afrikaans: botsel, uitspruitsel	Arabic: بُرعم	Bulgarian: пъпка
Brazilian: broto	Czech: pupen; poupě	German: die Knospe
Danish: knop	Greek: μπουμπούκι	Spanish: brote
Estonian: pung, nupp	Farsi: جوانه	Finnish: nuppu
French: bourgeon	Hebrew: נִיצָן	Hindi: कली
Croatian: pupoljak	Hungarian: rügy	Indonesian: tunas
Italian: gemma, bocciolo	Japanese: 芽	Korean: 싹, 꽃봉오리
Lithuanian: pumpuras	Latvian: pumpurs	Malay: kudup
Dutch: knop	Norwegian: knopp	Polish: pączek
Persian: جوانه	Pashto: غوټی	Portuguese: rebento
Romanian: mugur	Russian: почка; бутон	Slovak: puk, púčik
Slovenian: popek	Serbian: pupoljak	Swedish: knopp
Thai: ต้นอ่อน	Turkish: tomurcuk, gonca	Taiwanese: 芽
Ukrainian: брунька, бутон	Urdu: کونپل ، کلی ، شگوفہ	Vietnamese: nụ; chồi
Chinese: 芽
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