bud vs purple

bud

noun
  • Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally. 

  • Buddy, friend. 

  • used to address a male 

  • A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. 

  • Something that has begun to develop. 

  • 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. 

purple

noun
  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. 

  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). 

  • Purpura. 

  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. 

  • Earcockle, a disease of wheat. 

  • A cardinalate. 

  • A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. 

  • Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. 

  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. 

  • Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings. 

verb
  • To clothe in purple. 

  • To dye purple. 

  • To turn purple in colour. 

adj
  • Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session. 

  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. 

  • Mixed between social democrats and liberals. 

  • Imperial; regal. 

  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. 

  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. 

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

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