Word Finder - bud

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

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After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.

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• budset

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Something that has begun to develop.

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breast buds

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

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In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.

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

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Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?

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• marijuana
• nug

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

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(term of endearment) A pretty young girl.

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To form buds.

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The trees are finally starting to bud.

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To reproduce by splitting off buds.

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Yeast reproduces by budding.

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To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

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To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

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To put forth as a bud.

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To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.