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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Budding \Bud"ding\, n. 1. The act or process of producing buds. 2. (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free gemmation. See {Hydroidea}. 3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budded}; p. pr & vb n. {Budding}.] 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does into a flower or shoot. 2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. 3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as a budding virgin. --Shak. Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: budding adj : beginning to develop; "a budding genius" n : reproduction of some unicellular organisms by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
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