| Bud (bud) |
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| n. | ((?)) |
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| Bud |
| [OE. budde; cf. D.
bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud, LG.
butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of the dog-rose,
or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to
bud, p |
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.
A small protuberance on certain
low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism,
either free or attached. See Hydra.
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To put forth or produce buds, as a plant] to grow,
as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
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; as, a budding virgin.
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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.
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