bud

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From Middle English budde 'bud, seedpod', from Proto-Germanic *buddōn (compare Dutch bot 'bud', German Hagebutte hip, rosehip', Butzen 'seedpod', Swedish dialect bodd 'head'), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (to swell).

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A marijuana bud
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  1. A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.
    After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
  2. (slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud), or marijuana generally.
    Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
  3. 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.
  4. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
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bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)

  1. To form buds.
    The trees are finally starting to bud.
  2. To reproduce by splitting off buds.
    Yeast reproduces by budding.
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From buddy.

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bud (plural buds)

  1. (informal) Buddy, friend.
    I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
  2. (informal) used to address a male
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From Old Norse boð.

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bud n. (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bud)

  1. command
  2. message
  3. offer
  4. bid
  5. guess

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bud n. (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)

  1. messenger, delivery man, errand boy

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bud n.

  1. a message (also budskap)
  2. a commandment (as in the Ten Commandments; also budord), a rule that must be obeyed (also påbud)
  3. a bid, an offer
  4. a messenger (also budbärare, sändebud)
  5. someone who delivers packages or parcels (also budbil, cykelbud, paketbud)

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