The condition or process of having buds; the state of bearing or producing buds on a plant.
From English 'bud' with the suffix '-age' added to indicate a state, condition, or collection. This morphological pattern creates abstract nouns from concrete words.
Words ending in '-age' like 'buddage' often describe the bulk quality of something—just as 'foliage' means all the leaves together, 'buddage' means the overall bud-bearing capacity of a plant.
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