Meaning

noun a partially opened flower

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

verb develop buds

originFrom Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *buzdǭ (compare archaic German Butte (“rosehip”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”). Compare also German Low German Butte, Butt (“bud”), Dutch bot (“bud”), regional German Butz, Butzen (“seed pod; apple core”),…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0