budded

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of bud.

   Last summer the gardener budded the young peach trees onto hardy rootstock.

   Under the microscope, the yeast cells had budded and begun to separate.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty: the simple past (the maples budded early) and the participle after have or be (the trees have budded). The final d doubles before -ed, as it does in other short verbs ending in one vowel and one consonant. The passive belongs mostly to grafting, where someone buds a tree: the young stock was budded by hand.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having developed buds.

   A budded twig of forsythia will flower within days in a warm room.

   Florists like to sell budded lilies so the blooms open at the customer's home.

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