budding
/ˈbʌdiŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To form buds.
- To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- 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.
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