Bud vs Budless - What's the difference?
bud | budless |
A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.
(usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud ), or marijuana generally.
A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
To form buds.
To reproduce by splitting off buds.
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.
(informal) Buddy, friend.
(informal) (used to address a male)
Without any buds.
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Lily Dougall, title=What Necessity Knows, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But now it was afternoon--which, we all know, brings a somewhat more depressing air--and the budless thickets stood so close, so still, Saul became conscious that his load was a corpse. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Edwin Dingle, title=Across China on Foot, chapter=, edition=
, passage=For hours we thus toiled up pathways seemingly fitter for goats than men, where leafless trees were bending destitute of life and helpless towards the valley, as the keen wind went sighing, moaning, wailing through their bare boughs and budless twigs. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=John Freeman, title=Poems New and Old, chapter=, edition=
, passage=THE POND Gray were the rushes Beside the budless bushes, Green-patched the pond. }}
As a proper noun bud
is a male nickname or bud can be (informal) a nickname for the beer.As an adjective budless is
without any buds.bud
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) budde 'bud, seedpod', from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bud) (en noun)- After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds .
- Hey bro, want to smoke some bud ?
- In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds .
Synonyms
* (marijuana) nug; see alsoDerived terms
* redbud * taste bud * bud of promiseVerb
(budd)- The trees are finally starting to bud .
- Yeast reproduces by budding .
- a budding virgin
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From (buddy).Noun
(en noun)- I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* * English terms of address ----budless
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