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▸ noun:  A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
▸ noun:  A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
▸ noun:  (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
▸ noun:  (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
▸ noun:  (US, Canada, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
▸ noun:  A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
▸ noun:  (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To form buds.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
▸ noun:  (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
▸ noun:  (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
▸ noun:  A male nickname.
▸ noun:  (rare, chiefly Southern US) A male given name from English.
▸ noun:  (informal) A Budweiser beer.
▸ noun:  (pathology) Initialism of benzodiazepine use disorder.
▸ noun:  (informal, telecommunications) Initialism of big ugly dish. [(informal, telecommunications) A C-band satellite dish used by television receive-only (TVRO) systems, ranging from 4 to 16 feet in diameter.]

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