Definition of bud

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Bud (n.) 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..

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Budget :: Budget (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions..
Budding :: Budding (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Fo :: Fo (n.) The Chinese name of Buddha.
Ptyxis :: Ptyxis (n.) The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.
Blastostyle :: Blastostyle (n.) In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata..
Subpleural :: Subpetiolar (a.) Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree..
Caper :: Caper (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles..
Embryo :: Embryo (a.) Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud..
Gemmation :: Gemmation (n.) The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding..
Bud :: Bud (n.) 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..
Apogamy :: Apogamy (n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.
Gemmiparity :: Gemmiparity (n.) Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.
Statocracy :: Statoblast (n.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds..
Pali :: Pali (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc..
Extraaxillary :: Extraaxillary (a.) Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud..
Blast :: Blast (v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom..
Imp :: Imp (n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
Cernuous :: Cernuous (a.) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss..
Buddle :: Buddle (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions..
Contortuplicate :: Contortuplicate (a.) Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory..
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