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   Bud (bŭd), 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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   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, 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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