bud out
verbEtymology A phrasal verb from bud + out.
1
Of a flowering plant To develop buds.
- For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since.1887, Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture, Sacramento: State Office, page 171:
2
Ambitransitive To erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud.
- Maples of the Japanese kinds are now budding out, and they make beautiful greenhouse foliage plants.1892 March 21, “Cool greenhouse plants”, in Gardening Illustrated, page 29:
- Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf.1892 July 23, L.C. Miall, “The surface-film of water and its relation to the life of plants and animals”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, page 79:
3
To produce in the manner of a bud or as though by budding.
- It is not hard to maintain a flourishing marine aquarium even in an inland town, and a scyphistoma may be kept alive in an aquarium for years, budding out its strobila every spring.1897 August 26, L.C. Miall, “Section D. Zoology”, in Nature, page 406: