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budding - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'budding' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Budding [ n.]
- The act or process of producing buds.
- 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.
- The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
2 . Budding [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Bud

Meaning of 'budding' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . budding [ s]
Meaning (1):
- beginning to develop
Example in sentence:
  • a budding genius