Bud

Definition:

(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.
(n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
(v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
(v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
(v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
(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.

Compare bud with other words:

bud vs. budding

bud vs. gemmiparity

bud vs. gemmification

bud vs. gemmiferous

bud vs. gemmuliferous

bud vs. gemmated

bud vs. deuterozooid

alabastrum vs. bud

bud vs. gemmule

bud vs. gonophore

bud vs. cankerworm

bud vs. prefloration

bud vs. prefoliation

bud vs. gemmiparous

bud vs. caperberry

bud vs. gemmate

bud vs. stipule

blossom vs. bud

bud vs. vernation

bourgeon vs. bud

bud vs. proliferous

bud vs. plumule

bud vs. macedonian

aestivation vs. bud

bud vs. prolepsis

bud vs. inoculate

bud vs. indeterminate

bud vs. syllepsis

bud vs. burgeon

bud vs. nickname

bud vs. rosebud

bud vs. foliation

bud vs. marijuana

bud vs. cabbage

bud vs. connotation