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noun

Budding n.

The act or process of producing buds.

(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.

The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

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Etymology of 'Budding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Budding" Quotes from Famous Books

... for whereas Homer extends it so far as to the budding of the beard, Plato himself has remarked this as rare: and the reason why the sophist Bion so pleasantly called the first appearing hairs of adolescence 'Aristogitons' and 'Harmodiuses'—[Plutarch, On Love, c.34.]— is sufficiently ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... those who die young, full of promise, to leave a memory of exquisite budding loveliness cut short by untimely frosts, but those who live on from infancy to childhood and from youth to physical maturity and even on to old age, yet never become responsible adults—these are ...

— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer

... came it was spring-time, and all the world was budding, exuding joy and hope, with the sun dancing over all. It was the time between the sowing and the hay-time, and there was a feeling of alertness in everything that had life, while even the rocks and solid earth seemed to stir. The air was ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... would she see the light of the golden sunshine—never again see the green, waving grass and the budding flowerets—never see the blue sky, with its fleecy clouds, or the heavens at night blazing with the soft, pale light of the twinkling stars—never again look upon a human face. But while her life lasted she would grope ...

— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey

... ardent attachment which sprung up between the two young ladies, because, forsooth, one was but sixteen, and the other eight-and-twenty; as if this slight disparity in years must necessarily engender a diversity of tastes, fatal to a budding friendship. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

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