Definition of buds Buds
/bʌˈdz/ - [budz] -
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What does buds mean?
Wiktionary 
- buds (Noun)
Plural of bud.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: buds |
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| bud - a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals | ||
| sprout a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) | ||
| leaf bud a bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop | ||
| flower bud a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop | ||
| bud - a partially opened flower | ||
| blossom, flower, bloom reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | ||
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| bud - develop buds; "The hibiscus is budding!" | ||
| develop expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form" | ||
| bud - start to grow or develop; "a budding friendship" | ||
| begin, start set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" | ||
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Wiktionary
- bud (Noun)
A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded. - bud (Noun)
Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant the bud, or marijuana generally. - bud (Noun)
A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. - bud (Noun)
A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud. - bud (Noun)
Buddy, friend. - bud (Verb)
To form buds. - bud (Verb)
To reproduce by splitting off buds.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- bud (n.)
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. - bud (n.)
A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. - bud (v. i.)
To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. - bud (v. i.)
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. - bud (v. i.)
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. - 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.
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A drug prepared from the cannabis plant, that is smoked or ingested for its euphoric effect. -
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An undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of the stem.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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bud, n. the first shoot of a tree or plant: used of young people, as a term of endearment.—v.i. to put forth buds: to begin to grow.—v.t. to put forth as buds: to graft, as a plant, by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree:—pr.p. bud′ding; pa.p. bud′ded.—n. Bud′ding, a method of propagation by means of buds.—adjs. Bud′dy; Bud′less.—To nip in the bud, to destroy at its very beginning. [M. E. budde; prob. related to Dut. bot, a bud.]
