Bud
[bʌd]
Definition
(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!'.
Inputed by Edgar--From WordNet
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.
Inputed by Harvey
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Germ, gem, undeveloped branch or flower.
v. n. Sprout, shoot, push, germinate, vegetate, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, shoot forth.
Checker: Lucille
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sprout, blossom, bloom, germinate
Checker: Luther
Definition
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.
Inputed by Armand
Examples
- Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I dare say, if he had told me his doubts at the first I could have nipped them in the bud. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If they had known the various tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, I told you so. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The south wind blew Dora, and the wild flowers in the hedges were all Doras, to a bud. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Place a plant in the dark, and it grows not; give it plenty of air and sunlight, and first the green leaves appear, then the bud, lastly the flower. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The buds from which the plant men blossomed resembled large nuts about a foot in diameter, divided by double partition walls into four sections. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was almost crying, and scattered the buds about by dozens. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I am no oracle to give answers, she replied, carefully selecting some buds. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I complied, in a very uncomfortable state, and with a warm shooting all over me, as if my apprehensions were breaking out into buds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- With plants which are temporarily propagated by cuttings, buds, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The sun had bathed in gold the western atmosphere, and in the east the clouds caught the radiance, and budded into transient loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Holmes pointed down the long tract of road which wound, a reddish yellow band, between the brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Jacqueline