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buds

/bʌdz/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  2. Something that has begun to develop.
  3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
  4. (usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.
  5. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
  6. (term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
  7. To form buds.
  8. To reproduce by splitting off buds.
  9. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
  10. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
  11. To put forth as a bud.
  12. To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
  13. Buddy, friend.
  14. Used to address a male

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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