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Bud vs Aflower - What's the difference?

bud | aflower |

As a proper noun bud

is a male nickname or bud can be (informal) a nickname for the beer.

As an adjective aflower is

(archaic|poetic) flowering, in bloom.

bud

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) budde 'bud, seedpod', from (etyl) .

Noun

(wikipedia bud) (en noun)
  • A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.
    • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds .
  • (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud ), or marijuana generally.
    • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud ?
  • 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 .
  • A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
    • Synonyms
    * (marijuana) nug; see also
    Derived terms
    * redbud * taste bud * bud of promise

    Verb

    (budd)
  • To form buds.
    • The trees are finally starting to bud .
  • To reproduce by splitting off buds.
    • Yeast reproduces by budding .
  • 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.
    • a budding virgin
    (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    From (buddy).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Buddy, friend.
    • I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
  • (informal) (used to address a male)
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Anagrams

    * * English terms of address ----

    aflower

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic, poetic) flowering, in bloom
  • * {{quote-book, year=1904, author=S.L. Bensusan, title=Morocco, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I daresay there were many among them, tied by their daily toil to the town, who thought with longing of the pleasant road before us, through fertile lands where all the orchards were aflower and the peasants were gathering the ripe barley, though April had yet some days to revel in. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Algernon Charles Swinburne, title=A Channel Passage and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The stars and the sun give thanks for the glory bestowed and beholden, For the gladness they give and rejoice in, the night and the dawn and the day: But nought they behold when the world is aflower and the season is golden Makes answer as meet and as sweet as the flower that itself is May. THE PASSING OF THE HAWTHORN The coming of the hawthorn brings on earth Heaven: all the spring speaks out in one sweet word, And heaven grows gladder, knowing that earth has heard. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=John Paris, title=Kimono, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It beat down upon Tokyo its fetid exhalations, the smell of cooking, of sewage and of humanity, and the queer sickly scent of a powerful evergreen tree aflower throughout the city, which resembled the reek of that Nagasaki brothel, and recalled the dancing of the Chonkina . }}