| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| bud |
| 1. n. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. |
| After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds. |
| 2. n. (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop. |
| breast buds |
| 3. n. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. |
| In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds. |
| 4. n. (usually un, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud), or marijuana generally. |
| Hey bro, want to smoke some bud? |
| 5. n. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud. |
| 6. n. (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl. |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To form buds. |
| The trees are finally starting to bud. |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds. |
| Yeast reproduces by budding. |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise. |
| a budding virgin |
| 11. n. (informal) Buddy, friend. |
| I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night. |
| 12. n. (informal) used to address a male |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| knopp |
| 1. n-c. (botany) a bud (of a flower) |
| 2. n-c. a knob, a bulb, a ball, a stud, a rounded tip or top; compare knapp, ratt, handtag |
| 3. n-c. (slang) head (on a person; used in many expressions) |
| klar i knoppen |
| clear thinking, awake |
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