Bud

Pronunciation

• enPR: bÅ­d, IPA: /bÊŒd/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒd

From Middle English budde 'bud, seedpod', from Proto-Germanic *buddōn (compare Dutch bot 'bud', German ‘hip, rosehip', Butzen 'seedpod', Swedish dialect bodd 'head'), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- ("to swell").

Noun

1. A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
2. (slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud), or marijuana generally.Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
4. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

Synonyms

• (marijuana) nug; see also

Derived terms

• redbud
• taste bud

Full definition of bud

Verb

1. To form buds.The trees are finally starting to bud.
2. To reproduce by splitting off buds.Yeast reproduces by budding.
3. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
4. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.a budding virgin

From buddy.

Noun

1. (informal) Buddy, friend.I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
2. (informal) used to address a male

Synonyms

Anagrams

• BDU
• dub