BUD (budded, budding)

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Irregular inflected forms: budded    , budding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bud mean? 

• BUD (noun)
  The noun BUD has 2 senses:

1. a partially opened flower

2. a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

  Familiarity information: BUD used as a noun is rare.

• BUD (verb)
  The verb BUD has 2 senses:

1. develop buds

2. start to grow or develop

  Familiarity information: BUD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partially opened flower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bud" is a kind of...):

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bud"):

rosebud (the bud of a rose)

Derivation:

bud (develop buds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bud" is a kind of...):

sprout (any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bud"):

leaf bud (a bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop)

flower bud (a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop)

mixed bud (a bud yielding both leaves and flowers)

Derivation:

bud (develop buds)

• BUD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bud    ... he / she / it buds   
Past simple: budded   
Past participle: budded   
-ing form: budding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Develop buds

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The hibiscus is budding!

Hypernyms (to "bud" is one way to...):

develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

bud (a partially opened flower)

bud (a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Start to grow or develop

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

a budding friendship

Hypernyms (to "bud" is one way to...):

begin; start (have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

This envelope comes from the infected cell, or host, in a process called "budding off."

(Enveloped virus, NCI Dictionary)

It is characterized by the presence of complex papillary patterns with cellular budding.

(Endometrial Serous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of papillae that are covered by epithelial cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm displaying cellular budding.

(Fallopian Tube Metaplastic Papillary Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

In budding yeast, GPS is a suppressor of lethal G-protein subunit-activating mutations in the pheromone response pathway.

(G Protein Pathway Suppressor 2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

A proliferation of the endometrial cells resulting in glandular enlargement and budding.

(Endometrial hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A primary endometrial adenocarcinoma composed of neoplastic cells that form complex glandular patterns associated with budding and branching of the neoplastic glands.

(Endometrial Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The mechanism of replication is unknown, however new virions containing host ribosomes bud off of the surface of host cells.

(Arenavirus, NCI Thesaurus)

The outermost part of the flower, usually green and formed of several divisions (sepals) that protect the bud.

(Calyx, Food and Drug Administration)

The plant species whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea.

(Camellia sinensis, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the transfer of ubiquitin to target proteins and may play a role in virion budding from infected cells and tumor suppression.

(E3 Ubiquitin-protein Ligase NEDD4 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)