Thesaurus: budding

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1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bud
2. n. The act or process of producing buds.
3. n. 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.
4. n. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
5. adj. beginning to develop
6. 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
7. 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.
8. A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism orcell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal orvegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attachedto the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation.See Hydroidea.
9. j:100 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 s. beginning to develop