Flower vs. Bud

Flowernoun

A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.

Flowernoun

(botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.

Flowernoun

A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.

Flowernoun

(usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.

Flowernoun

The vulva, especially the labia majora.

Flowernoun

(idiomatic) The best examples or representatives of a group.

Flowernoun

The best state of things; the prime.

Flowernoun

(obsolete) Flour.

Flowernoun

A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.

Flowernoun

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Flowernoun

(printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

Flowernoun

(in the plural) Menstrual discharges.

Flowernoun

(rare) Something that flows, such as a river.

Flowerverb

To put forth blooms.

Flowerverb

To decorate with pictures of flowers.

Flowerverb

To reach a state of full development or achievement.

Flowerverb

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

Flowerverb

To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Flowernoun

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

Flowernoun

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

Flowernoun

The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

Flowernoun

Grain pulverized; meal; flour.

Flowernoun

A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.

Flowernoun

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Flowernoun

Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

Flowernoun

Menstrual discharges.

Flowerverb

To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

Flowerverb

To come into the finest or fairest condition.

Flowerverb

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

Flowerverb

To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Flowerverb

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Flowernoun

a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

Flowernoun

reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

Flowernoun

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Flowerverb

produce or yield flowers;

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs.

Budnoun

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

Budnoun

(figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

Budnoun

A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

Budnoun

Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

Budnoun

A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

Budnoun

A pretty young girl.

Budnoun

Buddy, friend.

Budnoun

(informal) used to address a male

Budverb

(intransitive) To form buds.

Budverb

(intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

Budverb

(intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

Budverb

(intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

Budverb

(transitive) To put forth as a bud.

Budverb

(transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Budnoun

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

Budnoun

A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.

Budverb

To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

Budverb

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

Budverb

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.

Budverb

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

Budnoun

a partially opened flower

Budnoun

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

Budverb

develop buds;

Budverb

start to grow or develop;

Bud

In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately.