: to insert a bud from a plant of one kind into an opening in the bark of (a plant of another kind) usually in order to propagate a desired variety. Noun The bush has plenty of buds but no flowers yet. that sitcom star is still a bud, so all he needs right now are looks and personality Verb The trees budded early this spring.

To put forth or produce buds: a plant that buds in early spring. 2. To develop or grow from or as if from a bud: "listened sympathetically for a moment, a bemused smile budding forth" (Washington Post). 3. To be in an undeveloped stage or condition. 4. To reproduce asexually by forming a bud. 1. To cause to put forth buds. 2.

12 meanings: → see bud1 (sense 9), bud1 (sense 10), bud1 (sense 11) 1. a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping.... Click for more definitions.

Budding or blastogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site. For example, the small bulb-like projection coming out from the yeast cell is known as a bud.

Synonyms for BUDDED: blossomed, bloomed, flowered, burgeoned, leafed, leaved, unfolded, blew; Antonyms of BUDDED: withered, faded, dried up, shriveled, died, wilted, shrivelled, dropped

There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective budded. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

vb (buds, budding, budded) (intransitive) (of plants and some animals) to produce buds (intransitive) to begin to develop or grow (transitive) to graft (a bud) from one plant onto …

Simple past tense and past participle of bud. Everything had budded and blossomed.