1. • noun - a partially opened flower
   • noun - a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
   • verb - develop buds
   • verb - start to grow or develop
2. • Botany.
   • A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped shoot, leaf, or flower.
   • The stage or condition of having buds: branches in full bud.
   • Biology.
   • An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual.
   • A small, rounded organic part, such as a taste bud, that resembles a plant bud.
   • A person or thing that is not yet fully developed: the bud of a new idea.
   • To put forth or produce buds: a plant that buds in early spring.
   • To develop or grow from or as if from a bud: “listened sympathetically for a moment, a bemused smile budding forth” (Washington Post).
   • To be in an undeveloped stage or condition.
   • To reproduce asexually by forming a bud.
   • To cause to put forth buds.
   • To graft a bud onto (a plant).
   • Friend; chum.
3. • v - to put forth buds (undeveloped plant parts)

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