bud
A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
Noun 4 meanings
A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
“After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.”
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.
“In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.”
A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
Verb 4 meanings
To form buds.
“The trees are finally starting to bud.”
To reproduce by splitting off buds.
“Yeast reproduces by budding.”
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
“Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.”
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
Etymology
From Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *buzdǭ (compare archaic German Butte (“rosehip”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”).
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BUD at a glance
BUD has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + U 1 + D 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,118 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bud
All rhymes- ROSEBUD10
- EARBUD9
- REDBUD10
- DEBUD9
- DISBUD10
- LEAFBUD13
- MARYBUD15
- UNDERBUD12
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