bud vs mon

bud

noun
  • used to address a male 

  • Buddy, friend. 

  • 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 small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. 

  • A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud. 

verb
  • 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. 

mon

noun
  • A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England. 

  • A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles. 

  • A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element. 

  • The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen. 

  • The badge or emblem of a Japanese family, especially a family of the ancient feudal nobility; typically circular and consists of conventionalized forms from nature. 

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