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The correct spelling is buds.
How to pronounce buds
noun
IPA: /bʌdz/
Say it like: Bud-s
The correct spelling is buds. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. For example: "After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds."
Usage Examples
“After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.”
“breast buds”
“In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- 2.Something that has begun to develop.
- 3.A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- 4.(usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.
- 5.A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
verb
- 1.To form buds.
- 2.To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- 3.To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- 4.To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- 5.To put forth as a bud.
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