1. bud - Noun
2. bud - Verb
3. Bud - Proper 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.
A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe bud of victory is always in the truth. Benjamin Harrison
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. Gaston Bachelard
Whatever has bloomed, has bloomed from the very bud. Kashmir Proverb
Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son. Corsican Proverb
Pluck not a courtesy in the bud. English Proverb