bud

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something that has begun to develop.
3. (countable, uncountable) A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
4. (Australia, Canada, US, countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable, usually) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
5. (Australia, Canada, US, slang, uncountable, usually) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
6. (countable, uncountable) A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
7. (countable, dated, uncountable) A pretty young girl.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To form buds.
2. (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
3. (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
4. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
5. (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
6. (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌd/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: bot

Cognate with German: Hagebutte

Cognate with German: Butzen

In summary

From Middle English budde (“bud, seed pod”), from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ (compare Dutch bot (“bud”), German Hagebutte (“hip, rosehip”), regional German Butzen (“seed pod”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”).

Synonyms

sprout

shoot

blossom

🌼

flower

🌸

germinate

flower bud

bloom

germination

burgeon

germ

grow

gemma

buds

put forth buds

offshoot

develop

come out

Mary Jane

young shoot

shoot forth

leaf bud

button

fruit

reefer

pot

scion

effloresce

herb

🌿

produce

pimple

grass

knot

🪢

ditch

ding

boo

dew

bar

cornflower

charge

gauge

blonde

bale

appear

gash

ganja

burrito

🌯

gangster

gemmate

gage

block

Translations

bourgeon

Knospe

bouton

germoglio

brote

bourgeonner

yema

knop

brotar

germogliare

boccio

knospen

pąk

pączek

botón

Sentences

These hairs , which disappear over time , cover dark brown to black bud scales .