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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUD, n. [Gr. to plant or beget.] A gem; the shoot of a plant; a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves or a flower. It is called by botanists the hybernacle, the winter lodge or receptacle of the leaves or flowers of plants, and is an epitome of a flower, or of a shoot, which is to be unfolded the succeeding summer. It is covered with scales, which are intended to defend the inclosed rudiments from cold and other external injuries.are of three kinds; that containing the flower; that containing the leaves; and that containing both flower and leaves.
BUD, v.i. To put forth or produce buds or gems. Job
19:9.
1. To put forth shoots; to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot.
2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3. To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant.
BUD, v.t. To inoculate a plant; to insert the bud of a plant under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a partially opened flower
2: a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals v
1: develop buds; "The hibiscus is budding!"
2: start to grow or develop; "a budding friendship"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English budde Date: 14th century 1. a small lateral or terminal protuberance on the stem of a plant that may develop into a flower, leaf, or shoot 2. something not yet mature or at full development: as a. an incompletely opened flower b. child, youth c. (1) an outgrowth of an organism that differentiates into a new individual ; gemma (2) an outgrowth having the potential to differentiate and grow into a definitive organ or part ; primordium <an embryonic limb bud> 3. buddy II. verb (budded; budding) Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. of a plant a. to set or put forth buds b. to commence growth from buds 2. to grow or develop from or as if from a bud 3. to reproduce asexually especially by the pinching off of a small part of the parent transitive verb 1. to produce or develop from buds 2. to cause (as a plant) to bud 3. to insert a bud from a plant of one kind into an opening in the bark of (a plant of another kind) usually in order to propagate a desired variety • budder noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a an immature knoblike shoot from which a stem, leaf, or flower develops. b a flower or leaf that is not fully open. 2 Biol. an asexual outgrowth from a parent organism that separates to form a new individual. 3 anything still undeveloped. --v. (budded, budding) 1 intr. Bot. & Zool. form a bud. 2 intr. begin to grow or develop (a budding cricketer). 3 tr. Hort. graft a bud (of a plant) on to another plant. Phrases and idioms: in bud having newly formed buds. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. 2. n. US colloq. (as a form of address) = BUDDY. Etymology: abbr.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bud Bud, 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. 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. Bud moth (Zo["o]l.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. 3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak. Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(buds, budding, budded) 1. A bud is a small pointed lump that appears on a tree or plant and develops into a leaf or flower. Rosanna's favourite time is early summer, just before the buds open. N-COUNT 2. When a tree or plant is budding, buds are appearing on it or are beginning to open. The leaves were budding on the trees below. VERB: usu cont, V 3. see also budding, cotton bud, taste bud 4. When a tree or plant is in bud or has come into bud, it has buds on it. The flowers are bronzy in bud and bright yellow when open. ...almond trees that should come into bud soon. PHRASE 5. If you nip something such as bad behaviour in the bud, you stop it before it can develop very far. (INFORMAL) It is important to recognize jealousy and to nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand. PHRASE: V inflects

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See FLOWERS.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Germ, gem, bourgeon, sprout, shoot. II. v. n. Sprout, shoot, push, bourgeon, germinate, vegetate, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, shoot forth.

Moby Thesaurus

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