bud up
C1 neutral separable both
In simple words
A gardening technique where you take a bud from one plant and stick it into another plant so it grows there.
Literal meaning: To join a bud upward into a host plant or for buds to form upward on a stem.
Meanings
1 C1 neutral
To propagate plants by inserting buds from one plant into the bark of another (bud grafting).
"The nurseryman budded up hundreds of rose varieties onto wild rose rootstocks."
Grammar: separable
2 C1 neutral
For a plant to produce buds, beginning a cycle of growth or flowering.
"The roses have finally budded up after all the warm weather we've been having."
Usage notes
Primarily a technical horticultural term. The grafting sense is used by professional growers. Rarely used outside of specialist gardening or agriculture contexts.
Commonly used with
rootstock scion rose tree plant graft
Forms
Base
bud up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
buds up
he/she/it
Past simple
buded up
yesterday
Past participle
buded up
have + pp
-ing form
buding up
continuous
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Synonyms
bud graft graft propagate bud
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