blood

blood
1. noun /blʌd/
a) A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."

b) A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)

Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plants blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]

See Also: bleed
2. verb /blʌd/
a) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.

b) To let blood (from); to bleed.

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