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Bud
In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of the stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately. Buds may be specialized to develop flowers or short shoots, or may have...

is a botanical term referring to an undeveloped or embryonic shoot.

Bud may also refer to:
  • Bud, Indiana
    Bud, Indiana
    Bud is an unincorporated town in Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana....

    , a small town in the United States
  • Bud, Norway
    Bud, Norway
    Bud is a fishing village and former municipality in the present-day municipality of Fræna in Møre og Romsdal county in western Norway. The village is located on the Romsdal peninsula along the Atlanterhavsveien, west of the village of Hustad, north of the village of Tornes, and east of the...

    , a village in western Norway
  • Bud, Wisconsin
    Bud, Wisconsin
    Bud is an unincorporated community located in the town of Jefferson, Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States....

    , an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)
    Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch)
    Budweiser is a 5.0% abv American-style lager introduced in 1876 by Adolphus Busch and one of the highest selling beers in the United States. It is made with up to 30% rice in addition to hops and barley malt. Budweiser is produced in various breweries located around the world...

    , a global pale lager brand
  • Buds (album)
    Buds (album)
    -Track listing:# "Make You Mine" – 4:45# "She's A Monster" – 3:47# "Tears Me In Two" – 3:22# "Can't Resist" – 2:36# "Love Will Grow" – 3:16# "Just Ain't Enough" – 2:45...

    , a 1991 album by The Stems
  • Bud Industries
    Bud Industries
    Bud Industries is a manufacturer and supplier of electronics enclosures founded by Max Haas in 1928 and based in Willoughby, Ohio near Cleveland....

    , a manufacturer and supplier of electronics enclosures
  • Bud Nelson (canine), a bulldog who made the first automobile trip across the United States with Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker
  • A slang term for Cannabis (drug)
    Cannabis (drug)
    Cannabis, also known as marijuana among many other names, refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish word marihuana...

     or marijuana


BUD may also refer to:
  • Anheuser-Busch InBev
    Anheuser-Busch InBev
    Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. is a Belgian-Brazilian publicly-traded company, based in Leuven, Belgium. It is the largest global brewer with nearly 25% global market share and one of the world's top five consumer products companies by EBITA....

    , Ticker symbol "BUD" on NYSE, This a dual listed company.
  • Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (formerly named Budapest Ferihegy), IATA code BUD, serving Budapest, Hungary
  • Basic Underwater Demolition, or "BUD/S", a military specialization perfected by the United States Navy SEALs
  • Big ugly dish, slang term for a satellite dish used to receive satellite television signals on the C band
  • Black Urine Disease, a defect in a metabolic enzyme which causes urine to turn black


Bud is the name of:

As a given name or nickname:
  • Bud Abbott
    Bud Abbott
    William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.-Early life:...

    , American actor/comedian
  • Bud Adams
    Bud Adams
    Kenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams, Jr. is the owner of the Tennessee Titans' National Football League franchise. He was instrumental in the founding and establishment of the former American Football League. Adams became a charter AFL owner with the establishment of the Titans franchise, which was...

    , Owner of the Tennessee Titans National Football League franchise
  • Bud Black
    Bud Black
    Harry Ralston "Bud" Black is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher and current manager of the San Diego Padres.-College:Black played two years at Lower Columbia College in Longview...

    , American baseball pitcher
  • Bud Blake
    Bud Blake
    Julian Blake , better known as Bud Blake, was an American cartoonist who created the popular, long running comic strip Tiger, about a group of suburban boyhood pals. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Tiger began May 3, 1965...

    , American cartoonist
  • Bud Blattner, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • Bud Boyce
    Bud Boyce
    Joseph Russell Boyce was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1981, and served in the cabinet of Edward Schreyer...

    , Canadian politician
  • Bud Brown (politician), American politician
  • Bud Collins
    Bud Collins
    -External links:*** 2001 interview with Collins*...

    , American journalist and television commentator
  • Bud Collyer
    Bud Collyer
    Bud Collyer was an American radio actor/announcer who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars...

    , American radio and TV personality
  • Bud Cort
    Bud Cort
    Bud Cort is an American film and stage actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his portrayals of Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude and the titular hero in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud...

    , American actor
  • Bud Fisher
    Bud Fisher
    Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States....

    , originator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff
  • Bud Flanagan
    Bud Flanagan
    Bud Flanagan was a popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1960.- Family background :Flaganan was born Chaim Reuben Weintrop in...

  • Bud Freeman
    Bud Freeman
    Lawrence "Bud" Freeman was a U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of...

    , American jazz musician
  • Bud Grant
    Bud Grant
    Harry Peter "Bud" Grant, Jr is the former longtime American football head coach of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League for eighteen seasons. Grant was the second and fourth head coach of the team...

    , American athlete and coach
  • Bud Greenspan, American documentary filmmaker
  • Bud Harrelson
    Bud Harrelson
    Derrel McKinley "Bud" Harrelson is a former Major League Baseball shortstop who played for the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Texas Rangers from to . After retiring, he served as a coach for the World Champion Mets, and as manager of the Mets in 1990 and 1991...

    , American baseball players
  • Bud Palmer
    Bud Palmer
    John S. "Bud" Palmer is a former pro basketball player. He was a member of the original New York Knickerbockers, and was their leading scorer in their inaugural season 1946/47...

    , American basketball player and sportscaster
  • Bud Powell
    Bud Powell
    Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...

    , jazz pianist
  • Bud Selig
    Bud Selig
    Allan Huber "Bud" Selig is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998...

    , Commissioner of Major League Baseball
  • Bud Spencer
    Bud Spencer
    Bud Spencer is an Italian actor, filmmaker and former swimmer . He is known for past roles in spaghetti westerns together with his long time filmpartner Terence Hill...

    , Italian-born actor
  • Bud Wilkinson
    Bud Wilkinson
    Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson was an American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician. He served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4. His Oklahoma Sooners won three national championships and 14...

    , American football coach
  • Bud Yorkin
    Bud Yorkin
    Bud Yorkin is an American film and television producer, director, writer and actor.Yorkin was born Alan David Yorkin in Washington, Pennsylvania. He earned a degree in engineering from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania...

    , American film and television producer and director


In fiction:
  • Bud, Rudy's nickname for Kenny on The Cosby Show.
  • Bud (Saint Seiya), a character in the anime series Saint Seiya
  • Bud Bundy, the son on Married with Children
  • James "Bud" Anderson, Jr., the son on Father Knows Best
  • Larry "Bud" Melman, a character portrayed by Calvert DeForest
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