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| 1. n. plural of bud |  |
| 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 | |
