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bud1

Pronunciation: /bʌd/
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Definition of bud

noun

  • a compact knob-like growth on a plant which develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot.
  • Biology an outgrowth from an organism, e.g. a yeast cell, that separates to form a new individual without sexual reproduction taking place.
  • [with modifier] Zoology a rudimentary leg or other appendage of an animal which has not yet grown, or never will grow, to full size: in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops

verb (buds, budding, budded)

[no object] Biology
  • (of a plant or animal) form a bud:new blood vessels bud out from the vascular bed
  • [with object] graft a bud of (a plant) on to another plant.

Phrases

in bud

(of a plant) having newly formed buds: pale pink flowers which are of deeper colour in bud

Origin:

late Middle English: of unknown origin

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