Bud

What do we mean by bud?

Friend; chum. Used as a form of familiar address, especially for a man or boy. noun

A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot. noun

The stage or condition of having buds. noun

An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual. noun

A small, rounded organic part, such as a taste bud, that resembles a plant bud. noun

One that is not yet fully developed. noun

An earbud. noun

To put forth or produce buds. intransitive verb

To develop or grow from or as if from a bud. intransitive verb

To be in an undeveloped stage or condition. intransitive verb

To reproduce asexually by forming a bud. intransitive verb

To cause to put forth buds. intransitive verb

To graft a bud onto (a plant). intransitive verb

A gift, especially one meant as a bribe. Acts James I. (Jamieson.) noun

A familiar term for brother. noun

To ingraft a bud of or on, as of one plant on the stem of another: as, to bud a garden rose on a brier, or a brier with a garden rose. See budding, n., 3.

To put forth by or as if by the natural process of budding.

To put forth or produce buds; be in bud.

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

Something that has begun to develop.

A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

(usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

(term of endearment) A pretty young girl.

Words that are spelled similarly to bud:
bud.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bud:
shank, esk, buds, powell, prague, bohemian, cort, abbott, costello, walton, freeman, limb, petals, lou, czech, kai, moth, tate, shootout, buddy, spencer, stems, flower, carson, stem, pianist, vol, adams, moore, scales, leaf, collins, flowers, dennis, milwaukee, beer, jazz, fisher, seal, bob, dick, shoot, leaves, baseball, light, martial, arkansas, municipality, grant, charlie, parade, trio, oklahoma.

Words that rhyme with bud:
blood, stud, flood, mud, crud, scud, dud, spud, hud, thud, lifeblood, rudd, scrid, rud, bad blood, blue blood, clwyd, redbud, sudd, ehud, blueblood, judd, budd, flash flood, nudd, mudd, flud, strid, half blood, drag through the mud, in cold blood, in flood, shed blood, cudd, press stud, budde, youngblood, clsid, stump spud, venous blood, arterial blood, cancer of the blood, drilling mud, full blood, fludd, uhde, trueblood, california redbud, western redbud, artificial blood, menstrual blood, cold-blood, dudd, lebudde.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bud:
terminal, ureteric, lotus, single, little, flower, apical, small, young, red, lateral, tiny, green, early, dormant, pancreatic, tight, central, unopened, upper, very, closed, pink, top, big, lower, vegetative, sweet, embryonic, leaf, primary, permanent, fresh, ureteral, adventitious, sweetest, floral, axillary, beautiful, lily, pointed, lovely, hard, delicate, accessory, healthy, periosteal, epithelial, tree, dorsal, swollen, shaped, folded, lowest, primitive, limb, anterior, uppermost, yellow, sensitive, topmost, minute, median, fair, pretty.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bud:
variation, formation, scales, stage, cuttings, variations, development, break, differentiation, pattern, rot, burst, sports, grafting, moth, cells, initiation, columns, varieties, capitals, mouth, selection, lips, stages, propagation, opacities, wood, mesenchyme, drop, mesoderm, dormancy, galls, appearance, worm, cutting, column, scars, variety, ectoderm, scale, stupa, pollination, growth, capital, removal, union, trees, sticks, tree, worms, production, embryos, garden, generations, shoot, neck, inspecting, chondrogenesis, fission, light, sport, gall, hickory, lengths, reproduction, off, blast, mite, sign, mutation, primordia, opening, spurs, protection, transplantations, ornament, feeding, induction, motif, mouths, temperature, finial, tortrix, dropping, out, fig, papillae, tissue, necrosis, grafts, epithelium, embryo, proliferation.

Consonant match to bud:
bird, bid, bed, bad, bead, bode, bide, bade, bede, byrd, baud, bawd, bowed, boyd, bayed, burred, booed, budd, baaed, boodh, boughed, burd, beede, budde, baade, boyde.

Words that sound like bud:
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