bud : Idioms & Phrases

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arnica bud

  • noun fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower; naturalized in the United States
    fall dandelion; Leontodon autumnalis.
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big-bud hickory

  • noun smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
    black hickory; Carya tomentosa; white-heart hickory; mockernut; mockernut hickory.
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bud brush

  • noun a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States
    bud brush; Artemis spinescens.
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Bud moth

  • (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.
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bud sagebrush

  • noun a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States
    bud brush; Artemis spinescens.
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Cassia buds

  • the dried flower buds of several species of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..).
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Farcy bud

  • a hard, prominent swelling occurrinng upon the cutaneous surface in farcy, due to the obstruction and inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, and followed by ulceration.
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Flower bud

  • noun a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop
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  • an unopened flower.
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Fruit bud

  • (Bot.), a bud that produces fruit; in most oplants the same as the power bud.
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Latent buds

  • (bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow.
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Leaf bud

  • noun a bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop
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  • (Bot.), a bud which develops into leaves or a leafy branch.
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mary-bud

Ma"ry-bud` noun
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  1. (Bot.) The marigold; a blossom of the marigold. Shak.
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Medusa bud

  • (Zoöl.), one of the buds of a hydroid, destined to develop into a gonophore or medusa. See Athecata, and Gonotheca.
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mixed bud

  • noun a bud yielding both leaves and flowers
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Rum bud

  • a grog blossom. Colloq.
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Seed bud

  • (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule.
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taste bud

  • noun an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue
    tastebud; gustatory organ.
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Taste of buds, ∨ Taste of goblets

  • (Anat.), the flask-shaped end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a bud.
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To nip in the bud

  • to cut off at the verycommencement of growth; to kill in the incipient stage.
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Winter bud

  • (Zoöl.), a statoblast.
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