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BUD

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Irregular inflected forms: budded    , budding   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A partially opened flower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bud" is a kind of...):

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bud"):

rosebud (the bud of a rose)

Derivation:

bud (develop buds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bud" is a kind of...):

sprout (any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bud"):

leaf bud (a bud from which leaves (but not flowers) develop)

flower bud (a bud from which only a flower or flowers develop)

mixed bud (a bud yielding both leaves and flowers)

Derivation:

bud (develop buds)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Start to grow or develop

Example:

a budding friendship

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "bud" is one way to...):

begin; start (have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Develop buds

Example:

The hibiscus is budding!

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "bud" is one way to...):

develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

bud (a partially opened flower)

bud (a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals)

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 Context examples: 

The faculty of taste, distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds.

(Gustation, NCI Thesaurus)

To bud from infected cells, HIV-1 employs several host proteins such as endosomal sorting protein Tsg101, which functions in the Vps pathway.

(HIV Budding, NCI Thesaurus)

The birds sang in more cheerful notes, and the leaves began to bud forth on the trees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But his narrative was nipped in the bud.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bertrand, Bertrand! we are undone for the buds of her bud are even as our choicest flower!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had been raining all morning, I remember—a soft spring rain, which sent up a rich smell from the brown earth and pattered pleasantly upon the budding chestnuts behind our cottage.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is characterized by the presence of columnar, mucin-producing epithelial cells which often form papillary projections with irregular branching and budding.

(Pancreatic Non-Invasive Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

LIF, secreted by ureteric bud cells, converts kidney mesenchyme to epithelia, which then forms nephrons.

(Leukemia Inhibitory Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

True cribriforming, budding off of small clusters of epithelial cells into the lumen and luminal necroses.

(Mouse Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia-3, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The neoplastic columnar mucin-producing epithelial cells form papillae with irregular branching and budding.

(Pancreatic Mucinous-Cystic Neoplasm with High Grade Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)