bud
bud is a 3-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
- noun. A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
- intransitive verb. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
- intransitive verb. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- intransitive verb. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
- transitive verb. To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
- noun. a partially opened flower
- noun. a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- verb. start to grow or develop
"a budding friendship"
- verb. develop buds
"The hibiscus is budding!"
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bud:
Common word forms
buds, budded, budder, budding, budless
Words from these letters
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