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bud out en · VERB

Etymology

A phrasal verb from bud + out.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, of a flowering plant) To 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. (ambitransitive) To erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud.
   • 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:
   • 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:
3. (transitive) To 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:

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