3 entries under this word

Bud

Bŭd, n.

noun

n. [D. bot, H. Ger. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud; L. Ger. butte in hagebutte, huishutte, a hip of the dog-rose.] 1. 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.

Sense 2. A prominence on certain animals of inferior grades, as polyps, which grows into an animal, precisely as a bud in a plant grows into a flower. Dana.

Būd, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. BUDDED; p. pr. & vb. n. BUDDING.]

To put forth or produce buds; to grow as a bud 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 in bloom, or growing like a young plant. “Young budding virgin.” Shak.

Būd, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To insert the bud of, as a plant, under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock; to inoculate, as a plant. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.