Difference between Bud and Sprout

What is the difference between Bud and Sprout?

Bud as a verb is to form buds. while Sprout as a verb is to grow, where the initial state is a seed; to germinate.

Bud

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To form buds. To reproduce by splitting off buds.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded. Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. Buddy. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

Sprout

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To grow, where the initial state is a seed; to germinate.To cause to grow from a seed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A new growth on a plant.A child.A Brussels sprout.

We hope you now know whether to use Bud or Sprout in your sentence.

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