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# bud

«bud» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small swelling on a plant that will open into a leaf or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bud, buds); verb (bud, buds, budded, budding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bud is a small swelling on a plant that will open into a leaf or a flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#m1)

2) To bud means to grow buds: the trees are budding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#m2)

3) «Bud» (informal, mostly American) is a friendly word for a friend or a boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#m3)

4) A budding artist is one who is just starting and may become good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, buds appear in spring; a flower bud opens into a flower, which can make seeds; some tiny living things like yeast reproduce by budding. Taste buds are tiny parts of your tongue that sense flavours (sweet, sour, salty, bitter). Phrases: taste buds, nip it in the bud (stop a problem early), in bud, earbuds.

### examples

- The rose has three buds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x1)
- In spring, buds appear on the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x2)
- The bud opened into a flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x3)
- My taste buds love sour sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x4)
- Thanks, bud! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x5)
- She is a budding scientist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x6)
- Nip bad habits in the bud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x7)
- Put in your earbuds to listen to music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x8)
- It is a simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/#x9)

### note

Countable. Short for «buddy» when it means a friend (informal). Do not confuse with bug or butt. «Taste buds» are always plural in everyday use.

### In the corpora

- [Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/6/)
- [Not everything under the ground is a root, though: a potato is a swollen stem, and its eyes are buds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/4/)
- [A potato is a swollen underground stem called a tuber, and its eyes are buds; a sweet potato really is a root.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/7/)
- [A cut horse chestnut twig kept in water indoors opens its buds early.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/5/)
- [Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bud» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bud/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.