budding

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.

To put forth as a bud.

To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark; the result of this practice.

Beginning to develop.