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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