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   bud

   /bʌd/

   noun

   • 1. a compact growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot.
   • ▪ an outgrowth from an organism, e.g. a yeast cell, that separates to form a new individual without sexual reproduction taking place.
   • ▪ a rudimentary leg or other appendage of an animal which has not yet grown, or never will grow, to full size: "in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops"
   • 2. cannabis: informal US "I found him outside, smoking some bud"

   verb

   • 1. (of a plant or animal) form a bud: "new blood vessels bud out from the vascular bed"
   • ▪ graft a bud of (a plant) on to another plant.

   Word Origin late Middle English: of unknown origin.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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