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

(figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

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

(slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally. +

(US, Canada, Australia, slang) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.

(US, Canada, Australia, slang) Marijuana.

A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

(term of endearment) A pretty young girl.

To form buds.

To reproduce by splitting off buds.

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.

To put forth as a bud.

To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

(informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.

(informal, chiefly Canada) (Term of address for a man or person.) +