GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Bud, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding.]
   To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
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   To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
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   To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
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   Syn. -- To sprout; germinate; blossom.
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   Budding , n.
   The act or process of producing buds.
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   (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
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   The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
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