budding
/ˈbʌdiŋ/ adjective, noun
Also a form of bud
Forms buddings
- adjective Beginning to develop. “He's a budding deejay.”
- noun The development of buds on a plant.
- noun (horticulture) The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.
- noun (horticulture) The result of this practice.
Synonyms
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act or process of producing buds.
- noun 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.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “budding”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details