A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
Buddy, friend.
used to address a male
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.
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.
Synonym of plumule (“the first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons”)
In the obsolete theory of pangenesis propounded by the English scientist Charles Darwin (1809–1882): a hypothetical particle once thought to be the basis of heredity.
Synonym of dendritic spine (“a small membranous protrusion from the dendrite of a neuron that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse”)