concrete. A bud, a growing shoot, a branch; also transferred offspring. Obsolete.

Botany. A little projection found at the axil of a leaf, composed of scales, which are small leaves, and forming the rudiment of a branch…

A swelling bud, a young shoot of a plant. Now only poetic.

A young tender shoot or sprout of a plant; a bud. Now rare.

A bud; (also) any of various other rounded, disk-shaped, or globular parts of a plant.

= pimple, n.

An eye of a plant. Cf. eyelet, n. 2. Now archaic and rare.

[Perhaps not the same word. In sense 2b perhaps a diminutive of dod, n.2, Dutch dodde club.] A bud.

figurative. Something resembling a pimple; a small rounded lump, protuberance, or swelling.

A small bud on a plant stem, tuber, etc. Also: a shoot that has emerged from this. Now rare.

A thickened part or protuberance in the tissue of a plant; an excrescence on a stem, branch, or root; a node on a stem, esp. when of swollen…

In a plant or a part of a plant. A bud, (now) esp. one on a potato. Also: a recess on a potato in which a bud forms.

A little bud; a secondary bud springing from another bud.

a small, rounded, unopened flower bud; cf. sense 6a.

Horticulture. A bud or shoot that sprouts from a plant-stem. Also attributive, as break bud (see quot. 1954).