bud out verb3 •To develop buds.For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since. — 1887 •To erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud.Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants. — 1892 •To produce in the manner of a bud or as though by budding.It is not hard to maintain a flourishing marine aquarium even in an inland town, and a scyphistoma may be kept alive in an aquarium for years, budding out its strobila every spring. — 1897 formsbudded out · budding out · buds out