bud
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[edit] English
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Origin uncertain.
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bud (plural buds)
- A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.
- After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
- (slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant.
- Want to smoke some bud?
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
- (informal) Buddy.
- I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
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newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded
small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism
[edit] Verb
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to bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)
- To form buds.
- The trees are finally starting to bud.
- To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- Yeast reproduces by budding.
[edit] Translations
to form buds
to reproduce by splitting off buds
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bud n. (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bud)
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Inflection of “bud”
| neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | bud | buddet | bud | buddene |
| genitive | buds | buddets | buds | buddenes |
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bud n. (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)
- messenger, delivery man, errand boy
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- budbringer c.
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Inflection of “bud”
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| Inflection for bud | Singular | Plural | ||
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| neuter | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Nominative | bud | budet | bud | buden |
| Genitive | buds | budets | buds | budens |
bud n.

