English Dictionary

bud

/bʌd/

noun

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. / (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

I found a beautiful bud in the garden.

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

(figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

breast buds

意味（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.

意味（4）

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

Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?

意味（5）

A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

意味（6）

(dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.

My pretty bud was unfolding and I was not there to see it. She was developing so rapidly, I felt I could not be from her a day without missing some sweetness that could never come again.