Bud vs. Buddy — What's the Difference?

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.

A good friend; a comrade.

A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.

A partner, especially one of a pair or team associated under the buddy system.

The stage or condition of having buds

Friend or comrade; chum. Used as a form of familiar address, especially for a man or boy

Flowers from a female cannabis plant, especially after being harvested and prepared for smoking or other use

To associate as a buddy or buddies

A single flower of a cannabis plant, especially a female flower

A friend or casual acquaintance.

An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual.

A partner for a particular activity.

A small, rounded organic part, such as a taste bud, that resembles a plant bud.

An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.

One that is not yet fully developed

(In Maritime English) A person far removed from the conversation.

An earbud.

(transitive) To assign a buddy, or partner, to.

Friend; chum. Used as a form of familiar address, especially for a man or boy

Resembling a bud.

To put forth or produce buds

A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

To develop or grow from or as if from a bud

To be in an undeveloped stage or condition.

To reproduce asexually by forming a bud.

To cause to put forth buds.

To graft a bud onto (a plant).

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

(figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

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

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

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

A pretty young girl.

Buddy, friend.

Used to address a male

(intransitive) To form buds.

(intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

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

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

(transitive) To put forth as a bud.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A partially opened flower

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

Develop buds;

Start to grow or develop;