budding

Plural: buddings

Noun

• Asexual reproduction where a new organism develops from an outgrowth.
• reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
• The development of buds on a plant.
• The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.
• The result of this practice.

Verb

• develop buds
  • "The hibiscus is budding!"
• start to grow or develop
  • "a budding friendship"
• present participle and gerund of bud

Adjective Satellite

• beginning to develop
  • "a budding genius"

Adj

• Beginning to develop.

Examples

• He's a budding deejay.
• His strategy involved the budding of new words from existing ones on the Scrabble board.

Synonyms

bud, bud grafting

Anagrams of budding