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Plural of bud

regular plural

The plural of bud is buds.

Forms of bud

Singularbud /bʌd/
Pluralbuds /bʌdz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Buds in a sentence

  • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
  • Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113
  • Leaf buds grew on the trees with the advance of spring.From the entry grow
  • The leaf buds of the plane tree are subpetiolar.From the entry subpetiolar
  • And the Diet Coke washed over his taste buds like a mouth-gasm.2012, Nick Santora, Fifteen Digits, →ISBN. From the entry mouth-gasm

Meaning of bud

  1. noun A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  2. noun Something that has begun to develop.
  3. noun A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

Full definition of bud

Questions about the plural of bud

What is the plural of bud?
The plural of bud is buds.
Is bud countable?
Bud is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bud (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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