budding
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/ˈbʌdiŋ/
English
Definitions
verb
- To form buds.“The trees are finally starting to bud.”
- To reproduce by splitting off buds.“Yeast reproduces by budding.”
- To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
noun
- The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark; the result of this practice.
adjective
- Beginning to develop.
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Synonyms
bud graftingundevelopedsproutinggemmationgrassembryonicnewbornstemminginfantpopuppop-uparisingemergingflourishingthrivingemergentnascent