I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cotton bud
taste bud
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dormant
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New plants arise vegetatively from dormant buds on the short upright rhizome of the main root.
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Within ten to thirty days between twenty to fifty new plants begin to develop from the dormant buds on the rhizome.
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Since the inflorescence is not yet known, the plant is propagated only from dormant buds on the rhizome.
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The plant can be reproduced by obtaining bud plants from dormant buds on the rhizome, but reproduction is usually from seeds.
■ NOUN
cotton
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Use a cotton bud to blend the colours together, so there are no hard lines.
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Then smudge downwards towards the lashes, using a cotton bud or a small brush.
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Remove any blobs with a damp cotton bud .
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Use a cotton bud to carefully blend away edges into foundation so there is no hard edge.
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She licks the tip of a cotton bud and begins to comb her eyebrows.
flower
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Cloves are dried flower buds and are usually sold whole.
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Some plants grow flower buds in fall.
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After a while they brought their bowls out of the cupboard and the green leaves grew taller and flower buds began to fatten.
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For that reason tropical plants usually put out flower buds and flower by slow growth one to three months later.
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Keep away from jasmine, already thick in flower bud , and clematis, however untidy.
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Their problem is their flower buds tend to swell in the winter and can be damaged by frost or winds.
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Keep cut stems short so that next years flower buds are retained.
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From the centre of the plant flower buds develop, and these grow to the water surface and blossom.
limb
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For example, in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops but the apical ridge dies thus stopping limb development.
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Cells in the limb bud must record whether they are forelimb or hindlimb cells and so alter their programme.
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We tested this by grafting the tip of a limb bud to the flank of the embryo.
taste
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The taste buds are confined to the tip, the sides and the back of the tongue only.
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We were to use all our senses, our fingers, our eyes as well as our taste buds .
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He bit into one of Sarah's ham and cucumber sandwiches; his taste buds appreciated them.
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Their taste buds are numb by now.
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On top of this, food eaten eight miles up needs extra seasoning because at altitude taste buds are only 70 percent efficient.
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The taste buds can handle only periodic assaults and the sweet red pepper bread afforded intermediate breaks and recovery time.
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But it does not activate taste buds and has no intrinsic flavour.
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Dead ahead, a taste bud comes into view.
■ VERB
nip
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If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
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It was the best way to nip this in the bud .
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Guideline 18: Try to nip misbehaviour in the bud .
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The objective is to prevent, or at least nip in the bud , unwanted feelings.
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John's incipient school problems were nipped in the bud .
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Any breach of confidentiality concerning their children is something they have to nip in the bud right now.
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Thus, the possibility of social democracy is also neatly nipped in the bud .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
budding artist/actor/writer etc
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Perhaps she is a budding artist, a future novelist.
nip sth in the bud
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If I'd known about their plan I could have nipped it in the bud there and then.
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It's important to nip this problem in the bud.
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The idea is to nip minor school problems in the bud.
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Far better to draw them into the school to nip things in the bud than leave them to ferment discontent.
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Guideline 18: Try to nip misbehaviour in the bud.
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It was the best way to nip this in the bud.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures, so stiff and tense their buds won't open.
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Guideline 18: Try to nip misbehaviour in the bud .
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How many plants were needed to furnish the buds for the exhibition vase?
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Isaak draws no more attention than his anonymous buds.
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They went to wherever there were cut-down branches, nibbling off the buds.
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This will promote growth in the buds below your pinch.
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Use a cotton bud to blend the colours together, so there are no hard lines.
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With the Prozac I still get the same feeling but it kind of nips it in the bud .
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
budding artist/actor/writer etc
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Perhaps she is a budding artist, a future novelist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Its bright yellow pendulous boughs have begun to bud , and its contours give evidence of a healthy plant.