bud

[bʌd]

Definition:
1. A small lump that grows on a plant and from which a flower, leaf or stem develops.
2. A partially opened flower.
3. A swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals.
4. Start to grow or develop.

Use 'bud' in a sentence:

1. While tasty, such seeds are delicate-they cannot bud and grow if they dry out.
2. The trees are unfolding their buds.
3. Billy: I can teach you that and a whole lot more. Listen in bud!
4. The roses have come into bud.
5. A bad habit in a child should be nipped in the bud.
6. He found a word, ying, which means the bud of a tree.
7. It was springtime and the fruit trees were in bud.
8. The bud develops into a flower.
9. Fran gives the stunned Bud a kiss before she leaves.
10. The Abbott and Costello Show , starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts on American television.
11. Budding linguists can tune in to the activity cassettes in French, German, Spanish and Italian.
12. Small changes can swell monsoons, or nip them in the bud.
13. The forum is now open to all budding entrepreneurs.
14. Main ingredients: Neroli bud essence, cleaning factor, vitamin E, HA.
15. This puts stress on the bud eventually bursting it open.
16. Buds sprout in the spring.
17. You heard what the boss said, bud.
18. Recommended Reason: The hot taste challenges your taste bud.
19. So it would be better to nip the problem right in the bud.
20. Buds on the trees are a sign of spring.
21. Listen, bud, enough of the wisecracks, OK?
22. The flowers are bronzy in bud and bright yellow when open.
23. They are all my bud friends, but only she is my sweetheart friend.
24. The new buds begin to appear in the spring.
25. She had cleaned under her fingernails, twirled the wax out of her ears with a cotton bud.
26. As spring approaches, the trees begin to send forth tender buds.。
27. Where the hell was Bud, anyhow?
28. The infant flower opens its bud and cries, " Dear world, please ko not fade. "
29. Taste buds are concentrated at the tip and rear of the tongue and around its periphery.
30. Six months after Bud died, the house burned down.
31. The trees are shooting buds early this year.
32. The buds are conical or pyramidal in shape.
33. Solve it: These problems need to be nipped in the bud.
34. They will bud and blossom and bear fruit.
35. It is important to recognize jealousy and to nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand.
36. Nip it in the bud.
37. We should nip it in the bud before it gets any worse.
38. That boy is my bud friend.
39. The flowers are now in bud.
40. Trees begin to bud in the spring.
41. When the fruit trees are in bud or blossom, frosts may damage the crops.
42. Our budding romance was over.
43. The paraffin cut method was used to observe the flower bud differentiation of Tilia miqueliana.
44. Bud's nose was still black and blue.
45. Woman in the bud is sacred.
46. I watched his fingers move slowly under each letter as he tried to speak out "Bud the Sub".
47. The scientists marked a lily bud with dots along each petal's edge and "midrib" or central vein.
48. He's not my sweetheart, he is just my bud friend.
49. The tissue culture technology about shoot-tip and stem with auxiliary bud of Kalanchoe Blossfeldian were studied.
50. Some flowers bud their leaves very early in spring.
51. Do Mian Yang City have intellectualized bud seedling dish cropping equipment?
52. The government nipped the rebellion in the bud.
53. The leaves were budding on the trees below.
54. It is a simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud.
55. Now wearing the white bud means you're just like everyone else.
56. Bud turned the truck around, and started back for Dalton Pond.
57. These dots were markers that enabled them to measure every change in the size and shape of the flower as it went from bud to bloom.
58. The roses are in bud.
59. F: Hey, Bud. I'm just browsing.
60. The rose sprouted buds.
61. Bud friends are important to us.
62. GA produced by apple seed significantly inhibits floral bud differentiation, thus results in alternate year bearing.
63. When selecting fresh fish, let your taste buds be your guide.
64. Smudge the outline using a cotton-wool bud.
65. The saplings are budding.
66. Because of the delay in reaching bud break, bloom and veraison, a late harvest was anticipated.
67. Rosanna's favourite time is early summer, just before the buds open.
68. That weekend in Plattsburgh, he convinced her to go ahead and marry Bud.
69. There are a number of bud sports of popular varieties.
70. Crystal drops were dripping from a dozen lotus buds in the lake, while beads of water rolled about the leaves.
71. The tree is in bud already.