Definition of Bud

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Definition of Bud

Bud

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.

To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

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Bud Quotations

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams

The bud of victory is always in the truth.
Benjamin Harrison

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.
Mira Sorvino

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.
Robin Yount

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Gilbert Highet

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
Boyle Roche

Bud Translations

bud in Dutch is uitbotten, spruiten, botten
bud in German is Knospe, Knospe, Knospen treiben
bud in Italian is boccio
bud in Spanish is brote
bud in Swedish is knoppas, knopp

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