When a tree or plant is budding, buds are appearing on it or are beginning to open. The leaves were budding on the trees below. see also budding, cotton bud, taste bud
The embryo flower or shoot, sometimes shoot buds can be referred to as growth buds
In rose jargon, this word has several meanings Used as a noun, it refers either to an unopened flower or to the growth bud ("eye") found where leaves join stems As a verb, it refers to the process of creating new plants by budding
a vegetative growing structure at the tip of a stem or branch with the enclosing scale leaves or
A bud is a small pointed lump that appears on a tree or plant and develops into a leaf or flower. Rosanna's favourite time is early summer, just before the buds open
The tightly wrapped structure that contains miniaturized forms of leaves and stems (vegetative bud) which may open at a later date or remain dormant forever, or flowers (floral bud) which open the following spring
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin