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A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

Example: After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.

Something that has begun to develop.

Example: breast buds

A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

Example: In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.

(usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

Example: Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?

To form buds.

Example: The trees are finally starting to bud.

To reproduce by splitting off buds.

Example: Yeast reproduces by budding.

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

Buddy, friend.

Example: I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.

Used to address a male