a small protuberance on the stem of a plant that develops into a flower, leaf, or shoot

an outgrowth of an organism, e.g. a yeast, that becomes a new individual

anything that is not yet mature or fully developed

said of a plant: to produce buds

to begin to grow or develop

to reproduce asexually by forming buds that develop into new individuals

to graft a bud into (a plant of another kind), usu in order to propagate a desired variety