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 approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
A foolish or obnoxious person.
A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).