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.
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.
Bud(v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
Bud(v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
Bud(v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
Bud(v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
Budded(imp. & p. p.) of Bud
Budding(n.) The act or process of producing buds.
Budding(n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
Budding(n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
Budding(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bud
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