Bud

(noun.) a partially opened flower.

(noun.) a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals.

(verb.) start to grow or develop; 'a budding friendship'.

(verb.) develop buds; 'The hibiscus is budding!'.

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• Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I dare say, if he had told me his doubts at the first I could have nipped them in the bud. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• If they had known the various tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, I told you so. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The south wind blew Dora, and the wild flowers in the hedges were all Doras, to a bud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Place a plant in the dark, and it grows not; give it plenty of air and sunlight, and first the green leaves appear, then the bud, lastly the flower. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The buds from which the plant men blossomed resembled large nuts about a foot in diameter, divided by double partition walls into four sections. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He was almost crying, and scattered the buds about by dozens. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I am no oracle to give answers, she replied, carefully selecting some buds. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I complied, in a very uncomfortable state, and with a warm shooting all over me, as if my apprehensions were breaking out into buds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• With plants which are temporarily propagated by cuttings, buds, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The sun had bathed in gold the western atmosphere, and in the east the clouds caught the radiance, and budded into transient loveliness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Holmes pointed down the long tract of road which wound, a reddish yellow band, between the brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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