1Remove superfluous or unwanted buds from (a plant).
摘去（植物）多余（或无用的）幼芽（或花蕾）
Example sentencesExamples
If you're interested in displaying roses for competition or just producing a nice specimen for the dinner table, try disbudding a few of your roses.
Every family in the village has some land with tea plants, and generations of the villagers are involved in making tea by disbudding leaves and stirring them in big pans.
Dormant cuttings are saved for bench grafting, stored in the cold; after soaking in fungicide solution, rootstock cuttings are disbudded and scion cuttings are cut into one-node pieces.
Violets that are being repotted should be disbudded.
If only about 60 percent of the better stems are staked with canes and the other lateral shoots removed through disbudding, the plant forms bigger, and more showy flowers.
1.1Farming Remove the horn buds from (a young animal).
〔农〕为（动物幼崽）去角（芽）
Example sentencesExamples
A good time to disbud your kid is when he or she is 3 to 7 days old. The animal's potential for healing will be good at this time.
The majority of Pygora breeders do disbud their animals at an early age for their own convenience.
The code of recommendations for the welfare of livestock says only a trained and competent stock-keeper should perform disbudding and ideally a vet should do it.
The use of naturally polled breeds avoids the need to disbud animals.
We do not routinely disbud animals other than wethers, so if you would like to purchase a disbudded kid, make sure to let us know so it can be done early.
Definition of disbud in US English:
disbud
verbdisˈbəddɪsˈbəd
[with object]
1Remove superfluous or unwanted buds from (a plant).
摘去（植物）多余（或无用的）幼芽（或花蕾）
Example sentencesExamples
Every family in the village has some land with tea plants, and generations of the villagers are involved in making tea by disbudding leaves and stirring them in big pans.
If only about 60 percent of the better stems are staked with canes and the other lateral shoots removed through disbudding, the plant forms bigger, and more showy flowers.
Dormant cuttings are saved for bench grafting, stored in the cold; after soaking in fungicide solution, rootstock cuttings are disbudded and scion cuttings are cut into one-node pieces.
Violets that are being repotted should be disbudded.
If you're interested in displaying roses for competition or just producing a nice specimen for the dinner table, try disbudding a few of your roses.
1.1Farming Remove the horn buds from (a young animal).
〔农〕为（动物幼崽）去角（芽）
Example sentencesExamples
We do not routinely disbud animals other than wethers, so if you would like to purchase a disbudded kid, make sure to let us know so it can be done early.
The code of recommendations for the welfare of livestock says only a trained and competent stock-keeper should perform disbudding and ideally a vet should do it.
The use of naturally polled breeds avoids the need to disbud animals.
A good time to disbud your kid is when he or she is 3 to 7 days old. The animal's potential for healing will be good at this time.
The majority of Pygora breeders do disbud their animals at an early age for their own convenience.