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Bud vs Colletor - What's the difference?

bud | colletor |

As nouns the difference between bud and colletor

is that bud is a newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded or bud can be (informal) buddy, friend while colletor is (botany) a multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion in other words, a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.

As a verb bud

is to form buds.

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 ----

    colletor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion. In other words, a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.
    • Colleters are found in members of the Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae families.

    References

    *A Text-book of Botany By Eduard Strasburger. Macmillan:1898, p. 98 (picture) [http://books.google.com/books?id=qqJuuC_L9yIC&pg=PA98&dq=Colletor+botany&ei=qe4_R-bRO4m6swOshsHWBg]