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Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Budding}.]
1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a
bud does, into a flower or shoot.
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2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner
of a bud, as a horn.
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3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or
growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak.
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Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.
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Bud \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.
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The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are,
budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are
budded on each other. --Farm. Dict.
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Bud \Bud\ (b[u^]d), n. [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz,
the core of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte,
a hip of the dog-rose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button,
OF. boter to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See {Button}.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
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2. (Biol.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of
animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism,
either free or attached. See {Hydra}.
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{Bud moth} (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect of several
species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp.
{Tmetocera ocellana} and {Eccopsis malana} on the apple
tree.
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