bud
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- noun
- /bʌd/
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- A dogwood blossom in the park, a bud as white as the breath of death.
- flower bud
- leaf bud
- limb bud
What's the point of a bud just to be a bud by itself?
- What's the point of a bud just to be a bud by itself?
Examples
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The day lilies are in bud, ripe raspberries on the bushes, and mosquitoes biting.
Fiction book (1994) -
Geneen moves the single red rose in a bud vase to an adjoining table.
Academic text (1991) -
May I visit, or am I rupturing the delicate bud of creation?
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We have little buds there and there's a big one in here.
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Further, the more stems and leaves are left attached to the flower buds, the higher the apparent yield.
Academic text (2017) -
None had blooms or even buds, but they were beginning to leaf out.
Fiction book (1992) -
I left him a painting of a mother tree with buds, dripping fruit, and fresh green branches.
Fiction book (1993) -
PHOTOS: Lured by tender green buds, a hoatzin stretches out to pluck a meal below.
Academic text (1992) -
The greens consisted of Chinese cabbage and the leaves and tiny buds of kikuna, edible spring mums.
Fiction book (1991) -
The gardener noticed that the rose bush had several green buds ready to bloom in spring.
Synonyms
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A small part on a plant that will become a flower, not a leaf
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A small bump on a plant that will become a leaf or flower
A small round bud on a plant that becomes a leaf or flower
A small bump on a stem where leaves grow
A small part on a branch that grows into leaves not flowers
A small growth on a plant that makes both leaves and flowers
A bud water plants make to survive cold and grow again
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Etymology
The word bud comes from an old English word budde meaning 'small swelling'. So a bud is the little bump on a plant that will open into a leaf, flower, or shoot.