budding

4 definitions found

budding - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner
        of a bud, as a horn.
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     3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or
        growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak.
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     Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.
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  Budding \Bud"ding\, n.
     1. The act or process of producing buds.
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     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.
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     3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon
        another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
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budding - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  budding
      adj 1: beginning to develop; "a budding genius"
      n 1: reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts)
           by growth and specialization followed by the separation by
           constriction of a part of the parent

budding - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "budding":
     abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning,
     blooming, blossoming, burgeoning, callow, creative, crescent,
     developed, dewy, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fetal,
     florescent, flourishing, flowering, formative, foundational,
     full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, fundamental, gestatory,
     green, growing, grown, grown-up, hypertrophied, immature, impubic,
     in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive,
     inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inexperienced,
     infant, infantile, ingenuous, initial, initiative, initiatory,
     innocent, intact, introductory, inventive, juicy, mature, minor,
     naive, nascent, natal, new-fledged, original, overdeveloped,
     overgrown, parturient, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal,
     primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, raw,
     ripening, rudimental, rudimentary, sappy, sprouting, tender,
     thriving, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed,
     unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, ur, vernal, virginal