bud

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

“After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.”

Something that has begun to develop.

“breast buds”

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

“In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.”

(usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

“Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?”

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.

“The trees are finally starting to bud.”

To reproduce by splitting off buds.

“Yeast reproduces by budding.”

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.

Buddy, friend.

“I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.”

Used to address a male