Bud meaning : A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. 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. (usually uncountable) 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. (term of endearment) A pretty young girl. To form buds. To reproduce by splitting off buds. 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. To put forth as a bud. To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.