Definition of bud

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

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Budge :: Budge (v.) Brisk; stirring; jocund.
Cuckoobud :: Cuckoobud (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup..
Pullulate :: Pullulate (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.
Bryozoa :: Bryozoa (n. pl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa..
Disbud :: Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree..
Imp :: Imp (n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
Ineye :: Ineye (v. t.) To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate..
Germinant :: Germinant (a.) Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds.
Priest :: Priest (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests..
Stoloniferous :: Stolon (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma..
Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..
Gonoblastid :: Gonoblastid (n.) A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.
Metamorphosis :: Metamorphosis (n.) A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into
Burgeon :: Burgeon (v. i.) To bud. See Bourgeon.
Ita Palm :: Ita palm () A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber..
Boodhist :: Boodhist (n.) Same as Buddhist.
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..
Hydromedusa :: Hydromedusa (n.) Any medusa or jellyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusae..
Fo :: Fo (n.) The Chinese name of Buddha.
Dagoba :: Dagoba (n.) A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
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