bud

noun11

1. •
   a small new part on a plant that is still closed and will soon open, often into a flower

   • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
2. •
   (figurative) Something that has begun to develop.

   • breast buds
3. •
   (US, informal) Buddy, friend.

   • I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
4. •
   (slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
5. •
   [usually plural] (US, slang) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.

   • You got any buds?
6. •
   (US, slang) Marijuana.

   • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
7. •
   (Canada, informal) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.

   • [T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it, bud?" — 1946
8. •
   A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

   • In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
9. •
   (informal, rare) Brother.

   • So I'm walking along, minding my own business, right, and suddenly I found myself trapped in a nuclear family. Oh, they were all around me, mom, dad, bud, sis. — 1992
10. •
    (old-fashioned) A pretty young girl.

    • My pretty bud was unfolding and I was not there to see it. She was developing so rapidly, I felt I could not be from her a day without missing some sweetness that could never come again. — 1874
11. •
    A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

verb6

1. •
   To form buds.

   • The trees are finally starting to bud.
2. •
   To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

   • Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
3. •
   To reproduce by splitting off buds.

   • Yeast reproduces by budding.
4. •
   To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
5. •
   To put forth as a bud.

   • What appeared the same to us really wasn't. Every day was different, if we looked closely enough. Like the topiary tree that finally budded a rose after Terrence died: […] — 2013
6. •
   To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

   • Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode? — 1590

noun2

1. •
   Initialism of benzodiazepine use disorder.
2. •
   (informal) Initialism of big ugly dish.