bud
/bʌd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.08 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
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Meaning
noun
A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; American usage; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds."
- "Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac."
- "breast buds"
- "In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds."
- "You got any buds?"
- "Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?"
Etymology
From Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *buzdǭ (compare archaic German Butte (“rosehip”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”). Compare also German Low German Butte, Butt (“bud”), Dutch bot (“bud”), regional German Butz, Butzen (“seed pod; apple core”), German Low German Haagbutt ("rosehip"; Haagbudden (“rosehips”, plural)).
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Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.