budding : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: budding	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for budding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
budding adj beginning to develop; "a budding genius" n reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. 3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak. Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Budding \Bud"ding\, n. 1. The act or process of producing buds. 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}. 3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.