bud out

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English

Etymology

A phrasal verb from bud + out.

Verb

bud out (third-person singular simple present buds out, present participle budding out, simple past and past participle budded out)

  1. (intransitive, of a flowering plant) To develop buds.
    • 1887, Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture, Sacramento: State Office, page 171:
      For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud.
    • 1892 March 21, “Cool greenhouse plants”, in Gardening Illustrated, page 29:
      Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants.
    • 1892 July 23, L.C. Miall, “The surface-film of water and its relation to the life of plants and animals”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, page 79:
      Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf.
  3. (transitive) To produce in the manner of a bud or as though by budding.
    • 1897 August 26, L.C. Miall, “Section D. Zoology”, in Nature, page 406:
      It is not hard to maintain a flourishing marine aquarium even in an inland town, and a scyphistoma may be kept alive in an aquarium for years, budding out its strobila every spring.

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