A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
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.
(usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.
A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
(term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
Buddy, friend.
Used to address a male
To form buds.
To reproduce by splitting off buds.
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
To put forth as a bud.
To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.