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Budding

/ˈbʌdiŋ/

To form buds.

📖 Definitions of "Budding"

verb
  1. 1

    To form buds.

    "The trees are finally starting to bud."

  2. 2

    To reproduce by splitting off buds.

    "Yeast reproduces by budding."

  3. 3

    To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

  4. 4

    To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

noun
  1. 1

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

adjective
  1. 1

    Beginning to develop.

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