From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrosebudrose‧bud /ˈrəʊzbʌd $ ˈroʊz-/ noun [countable] 1 HBPthe flower of a rose before it opens2 → rosebud mouth/lips
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rosebud• The Assiniboin made a dish of buffalo blood boiled with brains, rosebuds, and hide scrapings.• Then she stared, amazed, at the fragile rosebud lying across his palm.• I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips, the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub.• Her eyes were made up with heavy black eyeliner, her mouth was a deep red rosebud.• A silver candlestick was waiting to be lit and a tiny bowl held red rosebuds.• Service is tip-top, the atmosphere restful and the ingredients as fresh as the rosebuds on the tables.• Later this rosebud spent a weekend at the stately home of a young lord.• Even in the 1976 heat-wave, I steamed uncomplainingly in polyester satin with rosebud trim. 