bud

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1. ISO 639-3 language code for Ntcham.

Noun

1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
   • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
2. Something that has begun to develop.
   • breast buds
3. 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.
4. Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
   • You got any buds?
   • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
5. Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
   • You got any buds?
6. Marijuana.
   • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
7. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
8. A pretty young girl.

Verb

1. To form buds.
   • The trees are finally starting to bud.
2. To reproduce by splitting off buds.
   • Yeast reproduces by budding.
3. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
   • Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
4. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
5. To put forth as a bud.
6. To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Noun

1. Buddy, friend.
   • I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
2. Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
3. Brother.

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