bud out

present singular third person buds out · participle present budding out · participle past budded out · past budded out

1. intransitiveTo develop buds.

   For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since.

   1887, Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture, Sacramento: State Office, page 171

2. ambitransitiveTo erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud.

   Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants.

   1892 March 21, “Cool greenhouse plants”, in Gardening Illustrated, page 29

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   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.

   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

3. transitiveTo produce in the manner of a bud or as though by budding.

   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.

   1897 August 26, L.C. Miall, “Section D. Zoology”, in Nature, page 406