Budding

Budding
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. [1913 Webster]

2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. [1913 Webster]

3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • Budding — steht für: Karl Budding (1870–1942), deutscher Verwaltungsjurist Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), Erfinder des mechanischen Spindelmähers englisch für Knospung, Abschnürungsprozess der Virushülle …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Budding — Bud ding, n. 1. The act or process of producing buds. [1913 Webster] 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • budding — index inchoate, incipient Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • budding — [adj] developing, flowering beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up,… …   New thesaurus

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