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

Nearby Words:

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Budding
Budding is a form of asexual reproduction typical of yeast, in which a new cell is formed as an outgrowth from the parent cell.

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