BUD

noun

1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
2. Something that has begun to develop.
3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

verb

1. To form buds.
2. To reproduce by splitting off buds.
3. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.