Synonyme
nug,
bloom,
blossom,
embryo,
floret,
germ,
incipient flower,
nucleus,
shoot,
spark,
burgeon,
burst forth,
develop,
grow,
pullulateEtymologie
() From Middle English budde 'bud, seedpod', from Proto-Germanic *buddōn (compare Dutch bot 'bud', German Hagebutte hip, rosehip', Butzen 'seedpod', Swedish dialect bodd 'head'), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bheu-, *bu- (“to swell”).