Bud

[bʌd]

解释:

(noun.) a partially opened flower.

(noun.) a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals.

(verb.) start to grow or develop; 'a budding friendship'.

(verb.) develop buds; 'The hibiscus is budding!'.

埃德加整理--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

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同义词及近义词：

n. Germ, gem, undeveloped branch or flower.

v. n. Sprout, shoot, push, germinate, vegetate, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, shoot forth.

编辑:露西尔

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Sprout, blossom, bloom, germinate

校对:卢瑟

解释:

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.

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