Budding

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being in an early developmental stage: a gallery with the works of budding artists.
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  • adj. That is beginning to develop.
  • v. Present participle of bud.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of producing buds.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, the putting forth or producing of buds.
  • n. In zoology, gemmation; a mode of asexual reproduction in animals analogous to budding in plants.
  • n. In horticulture, a process, allied to grafting, for growing a different variety of fruit or plant from a given stock by transferring a bud with a little of the woody tissue behind it to a cleft in the bark of the stock.
  • Producing buds: as, a budding tree.
  • Being in the condition of a bud; figuratively, being in an early stage of growth; being at the entrance of a period of life, a career, etc.: as, a budding orator.
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  • n. reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
  • adj. beginning to develop
    • Equivalent
    undeveloped   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    asexual reproduction    agamogenesis   
    Cross Reference
    lateral budding    axial budding   
    Variant
    hydroidea   
    Verb Stem
    bud   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    flooding   
     
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