A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
Buddy, friend.
used to address a male
A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
Something that has begun to develop.
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.
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
To put forth as a bud.
To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
To reproduce by splitting off buds.
To form buds.
An asexual reproductive structure, as found in animals such as hydra (genus Hydra) and plants such as liverworts (division Marchantiophyta), consisting of a cluster of cells from which new individuals can develop; a bud.