bud out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since."
- "Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants."
- "Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf."
- "It is not hard to maintain a flourishing marine aquarium even in an inland town, and a scyphistoma may be kept alive in an aquarium for years, budding out its strobila every spring."
Etymology
A phrasal verb from bud + out.